In reassessing the significance of the work of Hasan Al-'Attar, Peter Gran offers a cogent critique of the paradigm that has dominated -- and continues to dominate -- readings of modern Egyptian culture
The study of Sheikh Hasan, b. Muhammad (...)
Was Rifa'a El-Tahtawi a genius in the raw whose encounter with French culture informed his endeavour to modernise a backward oriental country? Peter Gran* attempts a less Eurocentric reading of Tahtawi's early life and of the larger subject of the (...)