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22%OFFMarwa Elshakry - Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950 - 9780226378732 - V9780226378732
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Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950

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Description for Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950 Paperback. Num Pages: 447 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRHT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 656.
In Reading Darwin in Arabic, Marwa Elshakry questions current ideas about Islam, science, and secularism by exploring the ways in which Darwin was read in Arabic from the late 1860s to the mid-twentieth century. Borrowing from translation and reading studies and weaving together the history of science with intellectual history, she explores Darwin's global appeal from the perspective of several generations of Arabic readers and shows how Darwin's writings helped alter the social and epistemological landscape of the Arab learned classes. Providing a close textual, political, and institutional analysis of the tremendous interest in Darwin's ideas and other works on ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
447
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226378732
SKU
V9780226378732
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Ref
99-50

About Marwa Elshakry
Marwa Elshakry is associate professor in the Department of History at Columbia University, where she specializes in the history of science, technology, and medicine in the modern Middle East. She lives in New York.

Reviews for Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950
Elshakry's wonderfully rich book adds a great deal to our knowledge concerning the reception of modern science by Arab and Muslim intellectuals.
John Kelsay, Florida State University Quarterly Review of Biology Even as Christian apologists combed scripture for Biblical refutations of Darwin, Islamic scholars as high up the intellectual ladder as Egypt's grand mufti, Muhammad 'Abduh, ... Read more

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