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1. The Making of the Arab Intellectual

   Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood

   Edited by Dyala Hamzah

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   In the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly ‘estate’ underwent social differentiation. Some found employment in the state’s new institutions as translators, teachers and editors, whilst others resisted civil servant...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge