{"product_id":"the-making-of-the-arab-dyala-hamzah-9780415488341","title":"The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of the Ottoman Empire's nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly 'estate' underwent social differentiation. Some found employment in the state's new institutions as translators, teachers and editors, whilst others resisted civil servant status. Gradually, the scholar morphed into the public writer. Despite his fledgling status, he catered for the public interest all the more so since new professionals such as doctors, engineers and lawyers endorsed this latest social role as an integral part of their own self-image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis dual preoccupation with self-definition and all things public is the central concern of this book. Focusing on the period after the tax-farming scholar took the bow and before the alienated intellectual prevailed on the contemporary Arab cultural scene, it situates the making of the Arab intellectual within the dysfunctional space of competing states' interests known as the '\u003ci\u003eNahda\u003c\/i\u003e'. Located between Empire and Colony, the emerging Arab public sphere was a space of over- and under-regulation, hindering accountability and upsetting allegiances.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe communities that Arab intellectuals imagined, including the Pan-Islamic, Pan-Arab and socialist sat astride many a polity and never became contained by post-colonial states. Examining a range of canonical and less canonical authors, this interdisciplinary approach to \u003ci\u003eThe Making of the Modern Arab Intellectual \u003c\/i\u003ewill be of interest to students and scholars of the Middle East, history, political science, comparative literature and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dyala Hamzah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415488346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415488341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Dyala Hamzah","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44717142147327,"sku":"9780415488341","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b2a4afa-ffc4-4cf9-99e0-75c52cf53258.jpg?v=1705687134","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-making-of-the-arab-dyala-hamzah-9780415488341","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}