By Marwa Elshakry

ISBN-10: 022600130X

ISBN-13: 9780226001302

ISBN-10: 022637873X

ISBN-13: 9780226378732

In Reading Darwin in Arabic, Marwa Elshakry questions present principles approximately Islam, technology, and secularism by means of exploring the ways that Darwin was once learn in Arabic from the past due 1860s to the mid-twentieth century. Borrowing from translation and analyzing stories and weaving jointly the background of technology with highbrow background, she explores Darwin’s worldwide charm from the viewpoint of numerous generations of Arabic readers and indicates how Darwin’s writings helped modify the social and epistemological panorama of the Arab realized classes.

           

Providing a detailed textual, political, and institutional research of the super curiosity in Darwin’s principles and different works on evolution, Elshakry indicates how, in an age of huge local and overseas political upheaval, those readings have been suffused with the anxieties of empire and civilizational decline. The politics of evolution infiltrated Arabic discussions of pedagogy, development, and the very experience of historical past. in addition they resulted in a literary and conceptual transformation of notions of technology and faith themselves. Darwin therefore grew to become a automobile for discussing scriptural exegesis, the stipulations of trust, and cosmological perspectives extra largely. The ebook additionally acquaints readers with Muslim and Christian intellectuals, bureaucrats, and theologians, and concludes via exploring Darwin’s waning impact on public and highbrow existence within the Arab global after global warfare I.

           

Reading Darwin in Arabic is an interesting and powerfully argued reconceptualization of the highbrow and political historical past of the center East.

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