A01=Yoav Di-Capua
Author_Yoav Di-Capua
authoritarian pluralism
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colonial forms of knowledge
colonialism
critical historians
egypt
egyptian historical thought
egyptian historiography
egyptian history
egyptian modernity
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ghurbal
historiography
history
house of records
intellectual tradition
islamic historiography
middle eastern history
modern egyptian theory
ottoman egypt
post colonial state
postcolonialism
retrospective
system of knowledge
Product details
- ISBN 9780520257337
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, "Gatekeepers of the Past" examines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians, and traces this tradition's uneasy relationship with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with the post-colonial state.
Yoav Di-Capua is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
