Enlightenment on the eve of the revolution : the Egyptian and Syrian debates /

"During the two decades that preceded the 2011 revolutions in Egypt and Syria, animated debates took place in Cairo and Damascus on political and social goals for the future. Egyptian and Syrian intellectuals argued over the meaning of tanwir, Arabic for "enlightenment," and its signi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kassab, Elizabeth Suzanne (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Sujets:
1900-2099
Islam and secularism > Egypt.
Islam and secularism > Syria.
Islam and state > Egypt.
Islam and state > Syria.
Civil society > Egypt.
Civil society > Syria.
Enlightenment > Egypt.
Enlightenment > Syria.
Islam et laïcité > Égypte.
Islam et laïcité > Syrie.
Islam et État > Égypte.
Islam et État > Syrie.
Société civile > Égypte.
Société civile > Syrie.
Siècle des Lumières > Égypte.
Siècle des Lumières > Syrie.
HISTORY > Middle East > Egypt.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Civil society.
Enlightenment.
Intellectual life.
Islam and secularism.
Islam and state.
Egypt > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Egypt > Intellectual life > 21st century.
Syria > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Syria > Intellectual life > 21st century.
Egypt.
Syria.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Secularist, governmental and Islamist tanwir debates in Egypt in the 1990s
  • The deconstruction of the 1990s Egyptian tanwir debates by Egyptian critics at the turn of the millennium
  • Tanwir debates in Syria in the 1990s : the Sisyphean moment
  • Tanwir and the Damascus Spring at the turn of the millennium : the promethean moment
  • Conclusion : tanwir as political humanism.

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