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Author Kassab, Elizabeth Suzanne, author.

Title Enlightenment on the eve of the revolution : the Egyptian and Syrian debates / Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages)
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Secularist, governmental and Islamist tanwir debates in Egypt in the 1990s -- The deconstruction of the 1990s Egyptian tanwir debates by Egyptian critics at the turn of the millennium -- Tanwir debates in Syria in the 1990s : the Sisyphean moment -- Tanwir and the Damascus Spring at the turn of the millennium : the promethean moment -- Conclusion : tanwir as political humanism.
Summary "During the two decades that preceded the 2011 revolutions in Egypt and Syria, animated debates took place in Cairo and Damascus on political and social goals for the future. Egyptian and Syrian intellectuals argued over the meaning of tanwir, Arabic for "enlightenment," and its significance for contemporary politics. They took up questions of human dignity, liberty, reason, tolerance, civil society, democracy, and violence. In Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution, Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab offers a groundbreaking analysis of the tanwir debates and their import for the 2011 uprisings. Kassab locates these debates in their local context as well as in broader contemporary political and intellectual Arab history. She argues that the enlightenment they advocated was a form of political humanism that demanded the right of free and public use of reason. By calling for the restoration of human dignity and seeking a moral compass in the wake of the destruction wrought by brutal regimes, they understood tanwir as a humanist ideal. Kassab connects their debates to the Arab uprisings, arguing that their demands bear a striking resemblance to what was voiced on the streets of Egypt and Syria in 2011. Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution is the first book to document these debates for the Anglophone audience and to analyze their importance for contemporary Egyptian and Syrian intellectual life and politics. Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab is associate professor of philosophy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. She is the author of Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective (Columbia, 2009), recipient of the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Book Award for its Arabic edition."-- Provided by publisher.
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Language In English.
Subject Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Egypt.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Syria -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Syria.
Syria -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
Islam and secularism -- Egypt.
Islam and secularism.
Islam and secularism -- Syria.
Islam and state -- Egypt.
Islam and state.
Islam and state -- Syria.
Civil society -- Egypt.
Civil society.
Civil society -- Syria.
Enlightenment -- Egypt.
Enlightenment.
Enlightenment -- Syria.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kassab, Elizabeth Suzanne. Enlightenment on the eve of revolution. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] 9780231176330 (DLC) 2018048838 (OCoLC)1089276262
ISBN 9780231549677 (electronic book)
0231549679 (electronic book)
9780231176323 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780231176330 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0231176325
9780231176323
0231176333
9780231176330
Standard No. 10.7312/kass17632
Music No. EB00792373 Recorded Books