Syllabus - The Arab East during the 19th century: A Cultural Intellectual History (38050)

Syllabus The Arab East during the 19th century: A Cultural Intellectual History - 38050
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HU Credits: 2 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: Islamic & Middle East Stud. Semester: 1st Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Nicole Khayat Coordinator Email: nicole.khayat@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Monday 3-4; Wednesday 4-5 Teaching Staff: Dr. Nicole Khayat Course/Module description: The Arab East during the 19th century was a period of highly accelerated literary production in Arabic, known as the nahda. This course will explore litterateurs and their writings on a variety of cultural and intellectual topics such as the theatre, historical writing, archaeology, photography and medicine. Course/Module aims: Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: Students will be obtain tools to critically examine historical processes. Attendance requirements(%): Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Course/Module Content: The Arabic press Travelogues Translation, authorship and copyright Literature Historiography and Egyptology The theatre Photography Medicine Journalism History of the book Required Reading: Thomas Philipp, " Bilād al-Šām in the Modern Period: Integration into the Ottoman Empire and New Relations with Europe," Arabica 51: 4 (2004), 401 – 418. Dror Ze'evi, "Back to Napoleon? Thoughts on the Beginning of the Modern Era in the Middle East," Mediterranean Historical Review 19: 1 (2004), 73-94. עמי איילון, מהפכת הדפוס הערבי, הוצאת מגנס, 2018, 31-51, 208-238. Elizabeth Eva Johnston, " Classification and Critique of Sciences in al-Ṭahṭāwı̄’s Takhlı̄ṣ (1834)," Middle Eastern Literatures 16: 3(2013), 282–299. Ottoman History Podcast: Rana Issa “The Bible and Modern Standard Arabic”: https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/arabic-bibleland Butrus Abu-Manneh, “The Christians Between Ottomanism and Syrian Nationalism: The Ideas of Butrus Al-Bustani,” IJMES 11: 3(1980), 287-304. Donald M. Reid, "Indigenous Egyptology: The Decolonization of a Profession?," Journal of the American Oriental Society 105:2(1985), 233-246. Adam Mestyan, "Arabic Theater in early Khedivial Culture, 1868–72: James Sanua Revisited," Int. J. Middle East Stud. 46 (2014), 117–137. Sheehi, Stephen. The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910. 2016, chapter 5, pp. 103-120. Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age: 1798-1939, Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2013. This is a partial list and subject to changes Additional Reading Material: Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 50 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 20 % Project work 0 % Assignments 30 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information:

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