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Culture and Hegemony in the Colonial Middle East

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230106437

ISBN: 978-1-349-38467-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 9, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Noorani, Yaseen

Pages: 1 –22

[New notions of political authority, social order, publicity and privacy, gender relations, and individual subjectivity became increasingly prominent in the Arabic public sphere as it emerged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These notions were overwhelmingly promoted,...
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Chapter 2Sovereign Virtue and the Emergence of Nationality

Noorani, Yaseen

Pages: 23 –48

[The rise of nationality in the Middle East in the late nineteenth century entailed a new way of conceiving the relationship between the individual self and social order, a new way of understanding the integration of individuals into a community that is an autonomous moral unit. This new...
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Chapter 3The Death of the Hero and the Birth of Bourgeois Class Status

Noorani, Yaseen

Pages: 49 –70

[By the beginning of the twentieth century, the emerging urban professional and bureaucratic classes characterized by their Western education and Western bourgeois attire (with the important addition of the Fez) had come to occupy a central position in the Egyptian social order by virtue of their...
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Chapter 4Order, Agency, and the Economy of Desire: Islamic Reformism and Arab Nationalism

Noorani, Yaseen

Pages: 71 –106

[We are confronted in the Arabic public sphere as it takes shape by the end of the nineteenth century with discourses grounded in a conception of the communal body as a population that must manage and configure itself in a precise manner to bring about moral integration, and thus the agency of a...
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Chapter 5The Moral Transformation of Femininity and the Rise of the Public-Private Distinction in Colonial Egypt

Noorani, Yaseen

Pages: 107 –147

[The public sphere in Egypt began to undergo a rapid expansion in the 1890s, resuming a trend interrupted by the imposition of British control in 1882. One aspect of this expansion was a proliferation of publications calling for the reform of the traditional regime of female seclusion and...
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Chapter 6Fiction, Hegemony, and Aesthetic Citizenship

Noorani, Yaseen

Pages: 149 –170

[I have argued in previous chapters that the emergence of nationality, in which the nation is conceived as a self-ordering morally autonomous community, is intimately connected with the emergence of a new way of understanding the nature of order within individuals and how this order comes about....
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Chapter 7Excess, Rebellion, and Revolution: Egyptian Modernity in the Trilogy

Noorani, Yaseen

Pages: 171 –208

[The Trilogy of Nagib Mahfuz, which stands at the end of his series of realist novels set in Cairo that began to appear in 1945, morally configures everyday Egyptian life in a manner that encompasses the political development of Egypt from 1917 to 1944.1 In doing so, it projects a revolutionary...
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Chapter 8Epilogue

Noorani, Yaseen

Pages: 209 –212

[If the line of inquiry pursued in this book is cogent, it shows that investigating the nature of modernity and modern norms requires tracing their emergence in non-Western as well as Western societies. If these norms could gain public dominance in a wide range of societies, it must be asked:...

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