3 The Hero at Home: Muḥammad al-Sibāʿī and Thomas Carlyle

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Foreword vi
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction Prophetic Tendencies: Egyptian Translators of the Twentieth Century 1
6. 1 Translation in Motion: A Survey of Literary Translation in Lebanon and Egypt during the Nahḍa 50
7. 2 Plagiarised Prophecy in the Romantic Works of al-Manfalūṭī, al-ʿAqqād and al-Māzinī 74
8. 3 The Hero at Home: Muḥammad al-Sibāʿī and Thomas Carlyle 114
9. 4 Tarjama as Debt: The Making of a Secular History of Arabic Literature 155
10. Conclusion The Prophet Today: The Novel in Distress 210
11. Bibliography 226
12. Index 244