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Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
Yoav Di-Capua
Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
Yoav Di-Capua
A study that illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, it explores Egyptian historical thought and examines the careers of numerous critical historians.
406 pages, 4 b/w photographs, 7 tables
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 9, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780520257337 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 406 |
Dimensions | 154 × 229 × 25 mm · 560 g |