Print culture, social change, and the process of redefining imagined communities in Egypt; response to the review by Charles D. Smith of Redefining the Egyptian Nation (IJMES 29, 4 [1997]: 606-22)

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-94

  Gershoni, Israel ^a   Jankowski, James ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 0039610979     PISSN: 00207438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0020743800052983     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. Page numbers cited without attribution refer to the review essay by Charles Smith, "Imagined Identities, Imagined Nationalisms: Print Culture and Egyptian Nationalism in Light of Recent Scholarship," International Journal of Middle East Studies 29 (1997): 607-22. Those cited as Redefining refer to our Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995); those cited as Egypt refer to our Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
2. Page numbers cited without attribution refer to the review essay by Charles Smith, "Imagined Identities, Imagined Nationalisms: Print Culture and Egyptian Nationalism in Light of Recent Scholarship," International Journal of Middle East Studies 29 (1997): 607-22. Those cited as Redefining refer to our Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995); those cited as Egypt refer to our Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
3. Page numbers cited without attribution refer to the review essay by Charles Smith, "Imagined Identities, Imagined Nationalisms: Print Culture and Egyptian Nationalism in Light of Recent Scholarship," International Journal of Middle East Studies 29 (1997): 607-22. Those cited as Redefining refer to our Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995); those cited as Egypt refer to our Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
4. ⊂Urūba wa Qadiyyat Filastīn (Sidon, 1971), 29-33; see also idem, Imānī (Cairo, 1936), 50-59.
5. ⊂Urūba wa Qadiyyat Filastīn (Sidon, 1971), 29-33; see also idem, Imānī (Cairo, 1936), 50-59.
6. ⊂watunā (Cairo, 1937), 11-22.
7. ⊂Arabiyya wa Hal An an Tatahaqqaqa," al-Hilāl, 1 February 1934, 385-89.
8. ⊂Arabiyya wa Hal An an Tatahaqqaqa," al-Hilāl, 1 February 1934, 385-89.
9. ⊂Arabiyya wa Hal An an Tatahaqqaqa," al-Hilāl, 1 February 1934, 385-89.
10. ⊂Arabiyya wa Hal An an Tatahaqqaqa," al-Hilāl, 1 February 1934, 385-89.
11. ⊂māriyya," Mulhaq al-Siyas̄a, 30 November 1933, 10; re-published in his al-Sharq al-Jadīd (Cairo, 1978), 49-69 (quotation from p. 68 of the 1978 edition, p. 75 of the undated [1962?] edition).
12. ⊂māriyya," Mulhaq al-Siyas̄a, 30 November 1933, 10; re-published in his al-Sharq al-Jadīd (Cairo, 1978), 49-69 (quotation from p. 68 of the 1978 edition, p. 75 of the undated [1962?] edition).
13. Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Hayāt Muhammad, 2nd ed. (Cairo, 1935), 17.
14. Haykal, al-Sharq al-Jadīd (1978 ed.), 64.
15. Muhammad Husayn Haykal, "Thawrat al-Adab: min Haykal ilā Taha Husayn," al-Risāla, 15 June 1933, 41.
16. See Haykal, Hayāt Muhammad, 530-63.
17. Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Fī Manzil al-Wahy (Cairo, 1937), 23.
18. Taha Husayn's position is developed in his exchange with Tawfīq al-Hakīm in al-Risāla, 15 June 1933, 5-9. For further discussion of these issues, see Israel Gershoni, The Emergence of Pan-Arabism in Egypt (Tel Aviv, 1981), 65-67, 115-16; Etty Terem, "National Identity, Language and Islam in Taha Husayn's Cultural School of Thought, 1918-1938" (M.A. thesis, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, 1997).
19. Taha Husayn's position is developed in his exchange with Tawfīq al-Hakīm in al-Risāla, 15 June 1933, 5-9. For further discussion of these issues, see Israel Gershoni, The Emergence of Pan-Arabism in Egypt (Tel Aviv, 1981), 65-67, 115-16; Etty Terem, "National Identity, Language and Islam in Taha Husayn's Cultural School of Thought, 1918-1938" (M.A. thesis, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, 1997).
20. Taha Husayn's position is developed in his exchange with Tawfīq al-Hakīm in al-Risāla, 15 June 1933, 5-9. For further discussion of these issues, see Israel Gershoni, The Emergence of Pan-Arabism in Egypt (Tel Aviv, 1981), 65-67, 115-16; Etty Terem, "National Identity, Language and Islam in Taha Husayn's Cultural School of Thought, 1918-1938" (M.A. thesis, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, 1997).
21. ⊂īd [Cairo, 1935], 3-7).
22. ⊂īd [Cairo, 1935], 3-7).
23. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, 2nd ed. (London, 1991), 4.
24. Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford, 1986), 169.
25. Hans Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism (New York, 1944), 187-259; for a summary, see Anthony D. Smith, Theories of Nationalism (London, 1971), 196-97.
26. Hans Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism (New York, 1944), 187-259; for a summary, see Anthony D. Smith, Theories of Nationalism (London, 1971), 196-97.
27. Gabriel Piterberg, "The Tropes of Stagnation and Awakening in Nationalist Historical Consciousness: The Egyptian Case," in Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East, ed. James Jankowski and Israel Gershoni (New York, 1997), 47.
28. Smith, Ethnic Origins, 22-31.
29. Ibid., 157-61. See also Anthony D. Smith, National Identity (London, 1991), 91-98.
30. Ibid., 157-61. See also Anthony D. Smith, National Identity (London, 1991), 91-98.