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Freedom versus Liberalism
Arab Time: Periodization, Temporality, Generations, and Events
Part I The Legacies of Albert Hourani
1 Albert Hourani and the Making of Modern Middle East Studies in the English-Speaking World: A Personal Memoir
Other Centres of Middle Eastern Studies
The Establishment of a New Intellectual Field
Conclusion: The Oxford Contribution
2 Albert’s World: Historicism, Liberal Imperialism and the Struggle for Palestine, 1936-48
Out of ‘the Millet of Manchester’: Hourani and Hitti
Magdalen College, Oxford, 1933-36: Hourani and Collingwood
The American University of Beirut, 1937-1939: Hourani, Zurayk and Malik
Chatham House 1939-42: Hourani, Toynbee and Antonius
The Anglo-American Commission, Jerusalem, 1946
Part II The Expansion of the Political Imagination
3 Debating Political Community in the Age of Reform, Rebellion and Empire, 1780-1820
Why 1780s-1820s and Why Polemics? The Primacy of the Political in an Age of Crisis
Crisis and Rebellion: 1780s-1820s
The Polemics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Wahhabism, Salafism and Sufism
4 The Emergence of Transnational Muslim Thought, 1774-1914
Muslim Political Thought in the Age of Empire
Imperial Affirmation of the Napoleonic Experience
The Persistence of Ottoman Imperial Identity
The Crisis of Imperial Order and the Racialization of ‘‘the Muslim World’’
Global Apparitions of the Caliphate
5 From Rule of Law to Constitutionalism: The Ottoman Context of Arab Political Thought
Rule-of-Law Thought in Nineteenth Century Germany
Beginnings of Rule-of-Law Thought in the Ottoman Empire
Tunisia: Arabic Forays into Constitutional Thought
From Ottoman Provincial Reforms to Imperial Constitutionalism
The Languages of Constitutionalism in the Middle East
Part III The Means and Ends of the Liberal Experiment
6 Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq (1804-87): The Quest for Another Modernity
Dialectics of East and West
The Work of Arabic Literature
7 Liberal Thought and the ‘‘Problem’’ of Women: Cairo, 1890s
8 ‘‘Illiberal’’ Thought in the Liberal Age: Yusuf al-Nabhani (1849-1932), Dream-Stories and Sufi Polemics against the Modern Era
Al-Nabhani: Context and Content
The Deception of Christianity and the Menace of Islah
Dream-Stories and the Defense of Tradition
Part IV The Persistence of the Nahda
9 Participation and Critique: Arab Intellectuals Respond to the ‘‘Ottoman Revolution’’
Reaction to the Hamidian Counterrevolution of 1909
Mobilizing the Arabic Language
Ottomanism versus Arabism and the Decentralization Party
10 Men of Capital: Making Money, Making Nation in Palestine
The Frontiers of Private Initiative
11 The Demise of ‘‘the Liberal Age’’?: Abbas Mahmud al-.Aqqad and Egyptian Responses to Fascism During World War II
Hitler in Power and the Nazification of Germany
Hitler’s Personality: A Psychological Profile
Hitler: Why His Defeat Is Essential
Hitler, the Arabs and Egypt
The End of Hitler and Nazism
Part V The Afterlives of the Nahda in Comparative Perspective
12 Indian and Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age
The Historicist Trajectory
Shari.a and the Principle of Harm
13 The Autumn of the Nahda in Light of the Arab Spring: Some Figures in the Carpet
Writing Intellectual History Without the West
Beyond ‘‘The Condescension of Posterity’’ and ‘‘The Tyranny of Globalizing Discourses’’
Writing History With the Arab Revolutions
Entrapments of Mandate Feminism: Society and Family as a ‘‘History-Problem’’
14 The Legacies of Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age
Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age
：Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda
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