Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda

Hill, Peter

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“…103 Patronage systems are typically associated with the classical and premodern periods, but they did survive into the early 20th century. 104 To mobilize such systems would be to recast Herzl, after all a prolific if not terribly successful playwright, as a literary supplicant. It would frame the relationship between Herzl and Abdulhamid II not as a strategic one between political actors, but as a personal one between patron and poet, sovereign and (already) subject.…”

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A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter

Deuchar

2023

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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Little is known today about the Arabic typewriter. American typewriters revolutionized clerical labor and became literary icons, but the Arabic typewriter is largely absent from scholarship and popular culture. Only one story about it recurs, namely that of its origins. It was reportedly invented multiple times: in 1890s Beirut by, among others, a portrait painter named Salim Haddad; in 1900s Vienna by Theodor Herzl, founding father of political Zionism; and in 1940s Cairo by Wadie Said, father of the pioneering postcolonial theorist Edward Said. Bringing three competing accounts of the machine's invention together, I find that in each the Arabic typewriter was turned to very different purposes. Consistently, however, it was co-opted into intensifying struggles over territory and language. Repeatedly, it exceeded its representations, unsettling the narratives into which it was written and provoking a sense of strangeness, even unease. And across the accounts, diverse names and places reappear: New York, Palestine, Sherlock Holmes. Taking seriously the doublings and coincidences that connect the typewriter's origin-stories, I ask finally whether they might alert us to the possibility of another mode of cultural history—one that is itself uncanny and estranged.

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A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter

Deuchar

2023

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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“…En este sentido, todavía perdura la concepción eurocéntrica de la arqueología próximo oriental, según la cual aquellas civilizaciones de la antigüedad constituyen los orígenes de la mal llamada civilización occidental, siendo completamente ajenas a las poblaciones que se asentaron posteriormente en la región (Díaz-Andreu, 2007;Hout, 2008a;Larsen, 1989;Sartre y Sartre, 2016). Lejos de esta idea, desde aquel despertar de la cultura árabe que se desarrolló entre mediados del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX (nahda), grandes intelectuales vieron en aquellas grandes civilizaciones de la antigüedad el origen de las naciones árabes, constituyendo un elemento de identidad para las distintas comunidades que poblaban la región (Beshara, 2011;Choueiri, 2000;Corm, 2016;Dakhli, 2009;Hill, 2020). No obstante, no sería hasta época poscolonial cuando esta idea general habría de tomar forma en cada país.…”

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Descolonización y nacionalización del patrimonio arqueológico sirio entre 1946 y 1956. Un estudio de caso en torno al yacimiento de Ras Shamra.

Álvarez García

2023

Panta Rei

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When the Syrian Arab Republic proclaimed its independence in 1946, it placed its archaeological heritage at the service of building a national identity. Among the sites that served this purpose was Ras Shamra-Ugarit. Over the course of a decade, the discoveries made around the royal palace of the ancient city were widely disseminated to the Syrian population with the aim of presenting the site as evidence of a glorious national past. However, these discoveries were made by the French archaeological mission that had already been excavating the site since 1929, under colonial mandate. Thus, the nationalisation of the site depended on the relations that were established between the scientific mission and the Directorate of Antiquities. En el momento en el que la República Árabe de Siria proclamó su independencia en 1946, puso su patrimonio arqueológico al servicio de la construcción de la identidad nacional. De entre los yacimientos que sirvieron a este propósito se encuentra Ras Shamra-Ugarit. A lo largo de una década, los descubrimientos realizados en torno al palacio real de la antigua ciudad fueron ampliamente difundidos a la población siria con el objetivo de presentar el yacimiento como la prueba de un origen nacional glorioso. Sin embargo, dichos descubrimientos fueron llevados a cabo por la misión arqueológica francesa que ya lo había estado excavado desde 1929, bajo mandato colonial. Así pues, la nacionalización del yacimiento dependió de las relaciones que se establecieron entre la misión científica y la Dirección de Antigüedades.

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A New Utopian Dimension in Arabic/Islamic Tradition: Cosmopolitan Vision of the Future in Nihad Sharif’s The Inhabitants of the Second World

Alhashmi

2024

Palgrave Studies in Utopianism

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Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda

Cited by 17 publications

References 141 publications

A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter

A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter

Descolonización y nacionalización del patrimonio arqueológico sirio entre 1946 y 1956. Un estudio de caso en torno al yacimiento de Ras Shamra.

A New Utopian Dimension in Arabic/Islamic Tradition: Cosmopolitan Vision of the Future in Nihad Sharif’s The Inhabitants of the Second World

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