Supra-Egyptian Islamic and Pan-Arab identities and acculturated Muslim Egyptian intellectuals, 1892-1952
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description: This dissertation surveys the development of pan-Islamic and pan-Arab identifications among two main groups of Westernizing-educated intellectuals: (a) those in the independence movement launched by Mustafa Kamil (to 1918) and (b) that around the newspapers al-Jaridah (1908-1914) of the Ummah Party and then, after 1922, around the successor al-Siyasah and Party of Liberal Constitutionalists. Our focus on the conflict and interblending of Arab and Western high cultures stresses impoverishing and positive educational and aesthetic experiences in the age of imperialism as the motive for the pan-Islamic and pan-Arab identification that this Muslim Egyptian elite built up. Book 1 (1892-1918). The literature has over-stressed Egyptianist and pan-Islamic attitudes in Kamil's Hizb al-Watani and Egyptianist and secularoid ones from Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid's al-Jaridah --- doubly neglecting pre-1918 Egyptian Arabism. This study details respectful or at least very engaged evocation from both groups of "the [classical] Arab Nation". Neither group rigorously articulated a contemporary Arab successor-community, but we review proto-pan-Arab interactions and disorderly transitional terminology in contexts of Arab World literary activity that did point forward to the later post-1922 modern pan-Arab nation. Despite it~ particularoid homeland frame, pre-1913 Egyptian political nationalism already had features more like linguistic nationalism. Dual-cultured, both Kamilist and al-Jaridah writers became more and more aware of modern sectors of life that the standard literary Arabic of the classical Arabs had to be extended to cover. They made the ultra-politicized Qur'an-defined deterritorializing high Arabic their rallying-ground of struggle against the British. Language only instanced how extensively the intellectuals had, by 1914, integrated their Arab-Islamic and modern make-up. Kamilist pan-Islam, a spiritual stage ahead of Western nationalisms, had already synthesized the global tech…
abstract: This dissertation surveys the development of pan-Islamic and pan-Arab identifications among two main groups of Westernizing-educated intellectuals: (a) those in the independence movement launched by Mustafa Kamil (to 1918) and (b) that around the newspapers al-Jaridah (1908-1914) of the Ummah Party and then, after 1922, around the successor al-Siyasah and Party of Liberal Constitutionalists. Our focus on the conflict and interblending of Arab and Western high cultures stresses impoverishing and positive educational and aesthetic experiences in the age of imperialism as the motive for the pan-Islamic and pan-Arab identification that this Muslim Egyptian elite built up. Book 1 (1892-1918). The literature has over-stressed Egyptianist and pan-Islamic attitudes in Kamil's Hizb al-Watani and Egyptianist and secularoid ones from Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid's al-Jaridah --- doubly neglecting pre-1918 Egyptian Arabism. This study details respectful or at least very engaged evocation from both groups of "the [classical] Arab Nation". Neither group rigorously articulated a contemporary Arab successor-community, but we review proto-pan-Arab interactions and disorderly transitional terminology in contexts of Arab World literary activity that did point forward to the later post-1922 modern pan-Arab nation. Despite it~ particularoid homeland frame, pre-1913 Egyptian political nationalism already had features more like linguistic nationalism. Dual-cultured, both Kamilist and al-Jaridah writers became more and more aware of modern sectors of life that the standard literary Arabic of the classical Arabs had to be extended to cover. They made the ultra-politicized Qur'an-defined deterritorializing high Arabic their rallying-ground of struggle against the British. Language only instanced how extensively the intellectuals had, by 1914, integrated their Arab-Islamic and modern make-up. Kamilist pan-Islam, a spiritual stage ahead of Western nationalisms, had already synthesized the global tech…
author: Walker, Dennis Patrick
language: en
keywords: nationalism, Egypt, history, Islamic, identity, intellectual
date published: 1992
date modified: 2026-07-24T00:55:04Z
provider: Australian National University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Australian National University

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