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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19338-3 — Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age Edited by Jens Hanssen , Max Weiss Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19338-3 — Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age Edited by Jens Hanssen , Max Weiss Index More Information Index Abbas, Ferhat, 217 Aghani Mihyar al-Dimashqi, 120, 128, ʿAbbas, Kamal, 254 132–6, See also Adonis (ʿAli Saʿid ʿAbbasid Empire, 133–4, 136, 360, 363 Ahmad Isbir) ʿAbd al-Qadir, Emir, 147, 147 ff 12 Ahmad Bey, 204, 208, 210 ʿAbd al-Raziq, ʿAli, 153, 269, 276, 327, al-Ahmadiyya School, 92 330, 361 Ahmed, Leila, 263, 271, 277 Abdel Aziz, Alaa, 350 al-Ahram, 10, 72, 344 Abdel Malek, Anouar, 156–7, 314 al-ʿAlawi, Muhammad Bin al-ʿArabi, 148 ʿAbduh, Muhammad, 146 ff 10, 146, 150 ff ʿAlawis, 28, 118, 377–8 20, 150, 153, 205 ff 10, 205, 235, Aleppo, 135, 189, 191–2 263–5, 267, 269, 269 ff 28, 278, 278 Alexandria, 242–3, 246–8 ff 71, 284, 288 ff 12, 288, 291, 309, Alexandria Confédération Générale du 327–8, 359 Travail, 246 Abou Naddara, 31 Alexandria Tramway Company, 243 Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, 172, 172 ff 25, 179 Alexandria Transport Authority, 253 Abu Nuwas, 133, 136–7 Algeria, 9 Abu Shuqqa, ʿAbd al-Halim, 262 Algerian Revolution, 4, 9, 27, 39, 102, Abu Zayd, Nasr Hamid, 195 ff 60, 195, 105 283, 302 ff 66, 302, 308, 334, 334 ff Communist Party, 211 62, 368 Family Code, 203, 213, 220, 226, 229 L’Action 215, 218, 224–5 feminism in, 205, 229–31 discussion of veiling in, 224–6 French colonization, 147, 207 al-Adab,48–9, 52, 119, 129 veiling, 215–16, 219–20, 224–6 on iltizam (commitment), 49 War of Independence, 214–16, 270 al-Adib, 45, 126 Algerian Communist Party, 209 Adonis Algerian Muslim Congress, 209 influence of Maʿarri, Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al- on, ʿAli, Khalid, 260 134–6 al-ʿAlim, Mahmud Amin, 32, 49–53, 50 ff Adonis (ʿAli Saʿid Ahmad Isbir), 28 ff 131, 31, 319, See also Fi al-Thaqafa 28 ff 133, 29, 40, 117–21, 122 ff 30, al-misriyya (On Egyptian Culture) 123–36, 127 ff 51, 235, 329 ff 53, on iltizam (commitment), 52 329, 361, 364, 368 Al-Jil Al-Jadid, 223 al-ʿAdsani, Khalid, 92–3 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 248 advertising, 336, 344–5 American University of Beirut (AUB), 9, “Afghan Arabs”, 358 96, 96 ff 36, 116 al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din, 64, 72, 90, ʿAmil, Mahdi, 5, 55, 312 115, 234, 276, 288, 291, 309, 326, Amin, Galal, 329 359 Amin, Qasim, 93, 205, 233–4, 262–9, Afghanistan, 13–14, 236, 357 272–84, See also Liberation of Woman, ʿAflaq, Michel, 22, 192, 362–3 The (Tahrir al-marʾa) (Qasim Amin); Afro-Asian Women’s Conference, 217 New Woman, The (Qasim Amin) 428 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19338-3 — Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age Edited by Jens Hanssen , Max Weiss Index More Information Index 429 Amin, Samir, 8 ff 36, 8 ʿAsfur, Gaber, 235, 312, 312 ff 2, 330 Amiralay, Omar, 316 ff 11, 322 ff 26 Ashʿarites, 303 ff 70, 305–8, See also ʿAmiri, ʿUmar Bahaʾ al-Din, 192 Muʿtazilites Anglo-Egyptian Convention, 43 Ashkenazi Jews, 62, 70, 77, 81, 83 Anis, ʿAbd al-ʿAzim, 49–53, See also Fi al-Ashtal, ʿAbdallah, 109 al-Thaqafa al-misriyya (On Egyptian Association of Algerian Muslim ʿUlama Culture) (AOMA), 205, See also Ben Badis, on iltizam (commitment), 52 ʿAbd al-Hamid anti-fascism, 4, 21 Association of Arab-American University and anti-Zionism, 71 Graduates (AAUG), 172 anti-Semitism, 25–6, 70–1 al-Aswany, Alaa, 29 anti-Zionism, 26, 67, See also Zionism al-Atrash, Sultan, 31 Antun, Farah, 65, 328 authoritarian secularism, 199, 275 ʿAql, Saʿid, 23 authoritarianism, 6–16, 24 ff 110, 117 al-ʿAqqad, ʿAbbas Mahmud, 41, 47, 54, 58, in Egypt, 233, 241, 255–7 330 and intellectual history, 26 al-Aqsa Intifada, 366 in the postwar Arab Middle East, 16, Arab Cold War, 9, 24 21–6 Arab Left, 9, 14, 22 ff 106, 23 ff 107, 256, in Syria, 27–9, 237 296, 298, 314 in Tunisia, 221–2 Arab nationalism, 10, 25, 39, 42, 48, 66, 87 authoritarian-populism, 10, 251 ff 3, 146, 165, 186, 200 ff 89, 265, ʿAwad, Louis, 271 270, 289–90, 296, See also Arab al-ʿAzm, Sadiq Jalal, 24, 28 ff 133, 29 ff Nationalist Movement (ANM); 135, 195 ff 60, 195, 290, 300, 304, Movement of Arab Nationalists 312, 314–15, 335 ff 63, 364 (MAN) Abdallah Laroui on, 157, 161 Baghdad, 49–50, 63, 65, 73, 78, 92, 97, Abdelkebir Khatibi on, 159 117, 134, 331, 366 in Kuwait, 92–112 Baghdad Pact, 99 Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), 167 Bahr al-ʿUlum, Muhammad Salih, 73 Arab socialism, 9, 21, 39, 101, 107 ff 80, Balkan War, 91 241, 251, 253, 258 Ballas, Shim’on, 39, 63, 71–6, 78 ff 52, 84 Arab Socialist Union (ASU), 23 Bandung Conference, 8–9, 14, 18, 99 Arab uprisings, 6, 22 ff 106, 24, 27–35, 237, al-Banna, Hasan, 64, 189, 239 261, 315 ff 8, 344 and Sibaʿi, Mustafa, 189 Arabic, 359–60 Bardon, Treaty of, 208 Adonis on, 127 Barut, Muhammad Jamal, 120, 194, 329 Iraqi Jews writing in, 39, 62–3, 75–85 Bassiouny, Ahmed, 338 in Israel, 75–6 Baʿthism, 22, 39, 101, 118, 142, 188, 191, and the Israeli Communist Party (ICP), 194, 196–7, 199, 291, 333, 362–3 69 al-Bayati, ʿAbd al-Wahhab, 51, 51 ff 40, 78, translation of Jean-Paul Sartre into, 64 80, 114, 364 Arabic Language Academy, 183 Baydun, ʿAbbas, 49 ff 27, 368 Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798–1939 Beauvoir, Simone de, 217, 270 (Albert Hourani), 6–7, 113, 143–5, Beirut, 10–11, 43, 47–51, 56–7, 92, 146 ff 9, 161, 163–5, 178–80 96–7, 109, 111, 116, 126–8, 137, Arab-Israeli conflict, 236 167–8, 179, 246, 265, 325, 338, Arendt, Hannah, 12, 23 364–6 Arkoun, Muhammad, 24, 293 Beiruti modernism, 113–23, See also Shiʿr al-Arsuzi, Zaki, 22, 363 (Poetry) ʿasabiyya, 198 ff 80, 198–9, See also Ibn Bellagha, Aïcha, 221 Khaldun Ben Ammar, Neila, 221–2 al-Asad, Bashar, 28, 34 Ben Ammar, Wassila, 221–2 Asad, Talal, 5, 14, 17–18, 173, 183 ff 9, Ben Badis, ʿAbd al-Hamid, 204 ff 6, 205–7, 188, 271 229 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19338-3 — Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age Edited by Jens Hanssen , Max Weiss Index More Information 430 Index Ben Bella, Ahmed, 206, 219–20 Centre for Research, Studies, Ben Brahem, Josette, 224 Documentation and Information on Ben Miled, Nabiha, 211, 223 Women (CREDIF), 204 ff 5 Ben Mrad, Bchira, 210 Chahine, Youssef, 216, 368 Ben Mrad, Mohamed Salah, 210 Charara, Waddah, 163–72, 177–80, 240 Ben-Gurion, David, 68, 75 on capitalism, 171–2 Benjamin, Walter, 30, 126, 312 on fascism in Lebanon, 169–70 Bennabi, Malek, 323 influence of Ibn Khaldun on, 171–2 Benouniche, Leila, 217 interpretation of the Lebanese Civil War, Bidoun, 337 168–72 Binder, Leonard, 234 membership in French Communist Bint al-Shatiʾ (ʿAʾisha ʿAbd al-Rahman), Party, 167 265, 270 on Phalangists, 169–70 Bishara, ʿAzmi, 32 on sectarianism, 172 al-Bitar, Salah al-Din, 192 on sectarianism in the Lebanese Civil Bitat, Rabah, 223 War, 169 Bombay, 90–2 Chatterjee, Partha, 187 ff 19, 323 ff 32 Bouazizi, Mohamed, 336 Chelhod, Joseph, 323 Bouazza, Djamila, 216 Chentouf, Mamia, 211, 217, 222, 229–30 Bouhired, Djamila, 102, 216, 218, 222–3 Cohen, Avraham, 71 Boumediene, Houari, 220, 223 Cohen, Eliyahu, 70 Boupacha, Djamila, 216, 218 ff 60, 223 Cold War, 6, 8–9, 12, 27, 87 ff 3, 121, 235, Bourguiba, Habib, 203–4, 204 ff 5, 206–7, 340, 352, 357 209, 211–14, 218, 221–3, 225, College of Fine Arts (Cairo), 343 227 Collingwood, R.G. (Robin George), 17 and interpretations of shariʿa, 204–6 colonial feminism, 216, 263–4 Bouteflika, Abdelaziz, 230 and Amin, Qasim, 267–9 Bouzid, Dorra, 214, 224–5 Cominform, 9 Bretton Woods, 8 Comintern, 246–7 British Mandate (Palestine), 26, 67 Communism Brown, Wendy, 279 Algerian Communist Party, 211 al-Bustani, Butrus, 321, 359 Arab world, 8 ff 38 al-Bustani, Salim, 359 Egyptian Communist Party, 10, 246–7, 250, 253 Cairo, 6, 10–11, 20, 30–1, 43, 51, 57, 92, French Communist Party, 167, 210 116–17, 150, 152, 164, 189, 194, Hungary, 148 ff 15 213, 217, 242–4, 246, 253, 260, 262, Iraqi Communist Party, 66 279, 317, 331, 338, 341–2, 344, 351, Lebanese Communist Party, 50, 52 ff 44, 366 168 Cairo Biennial, 343 Palestinian Communists, 69 ff 17 Cairo Opera House, 350 Syrian Communist Party, 101, 191 Cairo Palace of Fine Arts, 338 Tunisian Communist Party, 211 Cairo School of Languages, 320 Congress of Cultural Freedom, 9 Cairo Tramway Workers Union, 244–6 Connolly, James, 248 Cairo University, 265, 276, 286 constitutionalism, 144 Camp David Accords, 274, 314 in Morocco, 149 capitalism, 5, 8, 171–2, 211, 239, 325 in the Nahda, 21 and colonial development, 239, 242 in Syria, 189 and neoliberalism, 241, 251 in the Syrian revolution, 15 Casablanca, 143, 154 in Tunisia, 206 Casanova, Pascal, 122, 129–30 contextualism, 16–17, 34, 88, See also Cénacle Libanais, 122 ff 29, 122, 129 Skinner, Quentin Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Cooper, Frederick, 2 Services (CTUWS), 254 cosmopolitanism Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 9, 241 and literary modernism, 115–16, 125 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19338-3 — Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age Edited by Jens Hanssen , Max Weiss Index More Information Index 431 critique General Egyptian Book Organization, and the Naksa, 141 350 critique of secularism July 1952 coup in, 39, 291 ff 26, 291, and secular criticism, 5 318 crony capitalism, 241, 251 labor movement, 240–2, 245, 248–9 in Alexandria, 247 al-Dad, 191 legal reform, 250 Damascus, 31, 113, 131, 183, 189, 191–2, National Library and Archives, 350 194, 312, 316–17, 325, 331, 358, neoliberalism, 257 360, 366, 378, See also “Nakbat non-governmental organizations Dimashq” (NGOs), 254–6 Damascus Institute of Drama, 317 Unified Labor Law (2003), 255 Damascus University, 97, 183, 191, 193, Egyptian Movement for Change, See Kifaya 197 (Egyptian Movement for Change) Faculty of Law, 183 Egyptian Socialist Party, 246 Faculty of Shariʿa, 190 Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF), Darraj, Faysal, 235, 312–13, 312 ff 2, 315 ff 251, 253, 255 8, 315–16, 316 ff 10, 322, 325–34 El Attar, Ahmed, 351 on capitalism, 325 El Moudjahid, 225 on Husayn, Taha, 329–31 ElBaradei, Mohamed, 260 Darwish, Mahmoud, 34, 114, 129 ff 59, elegy, 130 ff 63, 131 ff 65 132, 364, 368 and poetic modernism in Adonis, 136 decolonization, 7, 39, 42–4, 58–60, 160, Eliot, T.S.
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