The Power of Representation : Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt

Gasper, Michael Ezekiel

Stanford University Press（2008/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780804758888
• DDC分類 962.04

基本説明

Traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s.

Full Description

The Power of Representation traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s. During this period, a new class of Egyptian urban intellectuals—teachers, lawyers, engineers, clerks, accountants, and journalists—came into prominence. Adapting modern ideas of individual moral autonomy and universal citizenship, this group reconfigured religiously informed notions of the self and created a national sense of "Egyptian-ness" drawn from ideas about Egypt's large peasant population.

The book breaks new ground by calling into question the notion, common in historiography of the modern Middle East and the Muslim world in general, that in the nineteenth century "secular" aptitudes and areas of competency were somehow separate from "religious" ones. Instead, by tying the burgeoning Islamic modernist movement to the process of identity formation and its attendant political questions Michael Gasper shows how religion became integral to modern Egyptian political, social, and cultural life.

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments xxxx Note on Transliteration xxxx Introduction, 1 1. The Formation and the Emergence of the Peasant Question, 000 2. People, Peasants, and Intellectuals, 000 3. Five Peasant Characters in Search of Bourgeois Identity or Afandis in Gallabiyas, 000 CHAPTER 4 Scientific agriculture: Cultivators, Agriculturalists or Peasants? CHAPTER 5 The New Peasant, Colonial Identity and the Modern State CONCLUSION Notes, 000 Bibliography, 000] Index, 000