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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST Volume 1 ARAB HISTORY AND THE NATION-STATE ARAB HISTORY AND THE NATION-STATE A Study in Modern Arab Historiography 1820–1980 YOUSSEF M. CHOUEIRI Firstpublishedin1989byRoutledge Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2017 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1989YoussefM.Choueiri Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilised inanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownor hereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformation storageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-138-22002-7(Set) ISBN:978-1-315-39118-2(Set)(ebk) ISBN:978-1-138-22138-3(Volume1)(hbk) ISBN:978-1-138-22140-6(Volume1)(pbk) ISBN:978-1-315-41057-9(Volume1)(ebk) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwouldwelcome correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. ARAB HISTORY AND THE NATION-STATE A Study in Modern Arab Historiography 1820-1980 YOUSSEF M. CHOUEIRI First published 1989 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1989 Youssef M. Choueiri Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, Guildford and King’s Lynn All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Choueiri, Youssef M. Arab history and the nation-state: a study in modern Arab historiography 1820-1980.— (Exeter Arabic and Islamic studies). 1. Arab historiography, history I. Title II. Series 907'.20174927 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Choueiri, Youssef M., 1948- Arab history and the nation-state: a study in modern Arab historiography, 1820-1980/by Youssef M. Choueiri. p. cm. — (Exeter Arabic and Islamic series) Rev. version of thesis (Ph.D.)—University of Cambridge, 1986. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-415-03113-3 1. Arab countries—Historiography. 2. Nationalism—Arab countries. I. Title. II. Series. DS37.4.C46 1989 909'.04924'0072—dcl9 88-25852 CIP ISBN 0-415-03113-3 For Amal and Tarek Contents Preface ix Introduction xi Part I Pioneers and amateurs 1820-1920 1. Patriotic intellectuals and enlightened patrons: al-Tahtawi and the Egyptian identity 3 The concept and use of history 6 Egypt resurrected 8 Religion and science 15 Another Azharite 18 2. Two histories of Syria 25 The burden of the past 28 Mafar’s Syria 34 Yanni’s history 40 3. New identities and imperial vistas 55 Carthage, Rome, and Arabia 56 Part II The professional historians: managers of legitimation 1920-80 4. Muhammad ‘All and the Sphinx: Shafiq Ghurbal’s histories of Egypt 65 Views of history 68 The villains, the ignorant, and the unlucky 70 Two rivals 84 Muhammad ‘All revisited 102 The Pharaohs or the Arabs? 104 5. Kamal Salibi and the history of Lebanon: the making of a nation? 115 A new history 119 In the beginning ... 125 An enlightened prince? 130 A Christian nation and a Greek ethos 135 The politics of history 147
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