Arab Travellers and Western Civilization

by Nazik Saba Yared, Jana Gough (Editor), Tony P. Naufal (Editor)

Overview

This covers political, economic, intellectual and cultural conflicts that remain a major problem for Arab identity by focusing on Arab traveller's writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A highly readable reference work for students of modern Arab civilisation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780863563362
Publisher:	Saqi Books
Publication date:	09/15/2006

About the Author

Nazik Saba Yared is a Lebanese academic and writer who teaches at Beirut University College. She is the author of several works on classical Arabic literature and four novels (all in Arabic). Impact of the West, which was published in Arabic to critical acclaim, is the first of Yared's books to be translated into English.

Editorial Reviews

Lebanese novelist and scholar of classical Arabic literature Yared reminds westerners that her people have travelled among them and written accounts as well as vice versa. Though acknowledging classical travel literature, she focuses on Arab travellers of the 19th and 20th centuries. She analyzes writers who represent a train of thought shared by intelligencia of their time or who had an important impact on contemporaries or future generations. Her topics include nationalism and the state, democracy, principles of the French revolution, and western scientific thought. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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