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The Power Of Representation: Publics, Peasants, And Islam In Egypt, Michael Gasper
The Power Of Representation: Publics, Peasants, And Islam In Egypt, Michael Gasper
Michael Gasper
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Notes On The Lebanese Civil War, Michael Gasper
The Power Of Representation: Publics, Peasants & Islam In Egypt, Michael Gasper
The Power Of Representation: Publics, Peasants & Islam In Egypt, Michael Gasper
Michael Gasper
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 …