Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. A note on transliteration and translation XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I
7. 1 Contemporary Arab thought and the specter of the nahḍa 17
8. 2 Evaluating the standard narrative 43
9. 3 Time, modernity, and authenticity 93
10. Part I: Conclusion 144
11. Part II
12. 4 Zakī Najīb Maḥmūd: Searching for the golden mean 149
13. 5 Adonis: Authenticity and exploration of meaning 213
14. 6 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ṭāhā: Authentic creativity and the path to modernity 280
15. Conclusion 372
16. Bibliography 381
17. Person Index 402
18. Subject Index 408