Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt

by YDi-Capua (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $37.23

  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.