What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure inte

This book is a most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East.

Cutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the mode

A fundamental overhaul of modern Arab intellectual history, reassessing cultural production and political thought in the light of current scholarship.

Examines the 'Nahda', a cultural renaissance in the Arab world, through the utopian visions of Arab intellectuals during the nineteenth century.