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Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: towards a postwar intellectual history of the Arab world / Max Weiss and Jens Hanssen -- Changing the Arab intellectual guard: on the fall of the udaba,1940 -1960 / Yoav Di Capua, University of Texas, Austin -- Arabic thought in the radical age: Emile Habibi, the israeli Communist Party and the production of Arab Jewish radicalism, 1946-1961 / Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago -- Political praxis in the Gulf: Ahmad al-Khatib and the movement of Arab nationalists, 1948-1969 -- Abdel Razzaq Takriti, University of Houston -- Modernism in translation: poetry and intellectual history in Beirut -- Robyn Creswell, Yale University -- Regional specificities of modern Arab thought: Morocco since the liberal age / Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston -- Sidelining ideology: Arab theory in the metropole and periphery, circa 1977 / Fadi Bardawil, University of Chicago -- Mosaic, melting pot, pressure cooker: the religious, the secular, and the sectarian in twentieth-century Syrian social thought / Max Weiss, Princeton University -- Looking for 'the women question' in Algeria and Tunisia: ideas, political language and female actors before and after independence / Natalya Vince, University of Portsmouth -- Egyptian workers in the 'liberal age' and beyond -- Joel Beinin, Stanford University -- The redemption of women's liberation: reviving Qasim Amin in contemporary Egyp t -- Ellen Mclarney, Duke University -- Turath as critique: Hassan Hanafi and the political subject in modern Arabic thought / Yasmeen Daifallah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst -- Summoning the spirit of Taha Husayn's enlightenment project: the nahda revival of qadaya wa-shahadat in the 1990s / Suzanne Kassab, University of Bonn -- Revolution as ready-made: art, aesthetics, Arab uprisings / Negar Azimi, Bidoun Magazine -- For a third nahda / Elias Khoury (translated by Max Weiss, with Jens Hanssen) -- Where are the intellectuals in the Syrian revolution? / Rosa Yasin Hasan (translated by Max Weiss) -- The intellectuals and the revolution in Syria -- Yasin al-Hajj Salih (translated by Max Weiss)