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Routledge The Making of the Arab Intellectual - SOAS/Routledge Studies

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This Routledge academic work examines the transformation of Arab scholarship during the Ottoman Empire's nineteenth-century reforms, tracing how traditional scholarly roles evolved as guilds declined and modern professions emerged. The book explores how scholars transitioned from state employees-working as translators, teachers and editors-into public writers who shaped intellectual discourse for a growing audience. By analysing the dual identity of these intellectuals, the study reveals how doctors, engineers and lawyers embraced the public writer role as central to their professional identity. Published within the prestigious SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East series, this work provides essential historical context for understanding the colonial coordinates that defined Arab intellectual selfhood during a pivotal period of social and institutional restructuring.

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Explores the transformation of Arab scholars into public intellectuals during Ottoman Empire nineteenth-century reforms and institutional changes.

Examines how new professions including doctors, engineers and lawyers adopted public writing as an integral part of their self-image.

Part of the SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East series, bringing academic rigour to colonial-era intellectual history.

Analyses the social differentiation of the scholarly estate as traditional guilds declined and modern employment structures emerged.

Investigates the colonial coordinates that shaped Arab intellectual identity during this transformative historical period.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
08 November 2012
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13 November 2008

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