Intellectuals and Civil Society in the Middle East: Liberalism, Modernity and Political Discourse

Front Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: The Social Dynamism of the Organic Intellectual
Part I: Intellectuals as Modern Vanguard
	2. Nazik al-‘Abid and the Nur al-Fayha’ Society: Independent Modernity, Colonial Threat, and the Space of Women
	3. Edification between Sect and Nation: Murad Farag and al-Tahdhib, 1901–1903
	4. The Public Intellectual and the Secret Society: al-Kawakibi and His Legacy
Part II: Intellectuals as Defenders of Heritage
	5. The ‘Alim as Public Intellectual: ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (d. 1731 CE) as a Scholar-Activist
	6. Founders of Islamism in Republican Turkey: Kısakürek and Topçu
	7. Islamist Intellectuals and Women in Turkey
Part III: Intellectuals as Migrants
	8. Leading Arab Intellectuals in the West: The Cases of Mohamed Arkoun and Edward Said
	9. Some Distinctive Features of Mahjar Arab Intellectuals: On Hisham Sharabi and Halim Barakat
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index