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Disarming words, empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt, Shaden M. Tageldin

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Disarming words, empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt, Shaden M. Tageldin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Disarming words

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

thesesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Shaden M. Tageldin

Series statement

FlashPoints, 5

Sub title

empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt

Table Of Contents

Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Overture : Cultural Imperialism Revisited: Translation, Seduction, Power -- The Irresistible Lure of Recognition -- The Dismantling I : Al-Attar's Antihistory of the French in Egypt, 1798-1799 -- Suspect Kinships : Al-Tahtawi and the Theory of French-Arabic "Equivalence, " 1827-1834 -- Surrogate Seed, World-Tree : Mubarak, al-Sibai, and the Translations of "Islam" in British Egypt, 1882-1912 -- Order, Origin, and the Elusive Sovereign : Post-1919 Nation Formation and the Imperial Urge toward Translatability -- English Lessons : The Illicit Copulations of Egypt at Empire's End -- Coda : History, Affect, and the Problem of the Universal

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