AWST-115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Rashid Rida, Sharia, Arab Culture
8 Jan 2019
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Title: nahda: the arab project of enlightenment (ch. 3), cambridge companion to modern. The chapter talked about the early encounters with modern europe and, with those encounters, the need for a defensive and uniform state building. Chapter 3 also discussed the roles lebanon and syria played in the nahda because these are the places where scholars experimented with cultural renewal and the translation of european knowledge. Nahda"s hub , where the socioeconomic and political systems were established. The chapter also says that egypt was where the attempts were made to institute an arab modernity by way of social, political, and legal reform. Later in the reading it discusses the response of islamic modernism that sought to blend with/coexist with the nahda. The chapter ends with talking about the nationalization of the nahda through political and ideological projects. These are three writers that show how arab thought and culture grew and prospered from the 19th to 20th century.
