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Gendering Culture in Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period
Fruma Zachs
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Description for Gendering Culture in Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period
Hardback. The lasting impact of the Nahda is given an innovative and thoroughly unique interpretation, providing an indispensable perspective to studying the nuanced roles of the construction and development of gender ideologies in the nineteenth century Middle East . Series: Library of Middle East History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 black white integrated. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 1QDT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
The Nahda (lit. 'the Awakening') was one of the most significant cultural movements in modern Arab history. By focusing on the neglected role of women in the intellectual Islamic renaissance of the late Ottoman Period, Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exploration of gender and culture in the Arab World. Focusing mainly on Greater Syria, this book re-examines the cultural by-products of the Nahda - such as scientific debates, journal articles, essays, short stories and novels - and provides a new framework for rethinking the dynamics of cultural and social change in what today we know ... Read more
The Nahda (lit. 'the Awakening') was one of the most significant cultural movements in modern Arab history. By focusing on the neglected role of women in the intellectual Islamic renaissance of the late Ottoman Period, Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exploration of gender and culture in the Arab World. Focusing mainly on Greater Syria, this book re-examines the cultural by-products of the Nahda - such as scientific debates, journal articles, essays, short stories and novels - and provides a new framework for rethinking the dynamics of cultural and social change in what today we know ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Library of Middle East History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780769363
SKU
V9781780769363
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About Fruma Zachs
Fruma Zachs is Professor of Middle East History at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is the author of The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Beirut and co-editor of Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration (I.B.Tauris). Sharon Halevi is a senior lecturer of ... Read more
Reviews for Gendering Culture in Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period
[T]he material this book draws on is in and of itself rich and open to several avenues of interpretation and analysis. The authors are to be commended for weaving together lesser known authors and works with other seminal ones. The book also gives due attention to the earlier years of the nahda? , tracing debates about marriage and women’s place ... Read more