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Author Ryzova, Lucie, author

Title The age of the efendiyya : passages to modernity in national-colonial Egypt / Lucie Ryzova
Published Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Series Oxford Historical Monographs
Oxford historical monographs.
Contents Cover; The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt; Copyright; Acknowledgments ; Contents ; List of Illustrations ; Note on Transliteration ; 1: Introduction ; THE SAINT'S LAMP ; THE AGE OF THE EFENDIYYA ; HISTORY FROM THE MIDDLE ; EFENDI CULTURE, EFENDI STATE ; A NOTE ON SOURCES: JUNK AS ARCHIVE ; OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS ; 2: Recognizing the Efendi ; RECOGNIZING THE EFENDI ; THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY EFENDIHOOD ; What is the Efendi? ; The Discreet Charms of a New Bourgeoisie and the Hilarious Vulgarity of Imposters
Tropes of Struggle, Tropes of Luck The Economies of Education ; THE CULTURE OF SOCIAL MOBILITY ; Negotiating the Bottom Boundary ; Sitt Umm Efendi: Mothers' Struggles for efendification ; The Instincts of the Elders ; The miri Mystique and the Lure of the wazifa ; CONCLUSION: MODERNITY FROM THE MIDDLE ; 4: Passages to Modernity ; INTRODUCTION: DESERTERS AND BETTER LIFE SEEKERS ; DEPARTURES ; The Rules of the Journey ; The Past is a Foreign Country ; Genealogies of the Self: Nation, Family, Generation ; ILLUSTRIOUS STRUGGLES ; Auto-Efendification ; Lonely in the Fields
TAKWIN, OR THE SOURCES OF METAMORPHOSIS: MOVIES, BOOKS, TRAINS, AND PEOPLE Life is Elsewhere ; Tathqif, or the 'Open University' ; CONCLUSION: OUT WITH THE OLD. . .; 5: The New Mamluks ; 'IN THE GREAT CAPITAL AT THE BEGINNING OF WINTER. . .; STRANGERS IN THE BIG CITY ; The Day the Parents Died ; Making Youth ; Big Men and Little Men ; Between a Rock and a Hard Place ; When the Lights Go Down in Cairo ; Writing Revolts ; Back 'Home'? The Long Summer Holiday Tales ; YOUNG MEN RISING ; Loyalty Redefined ; Rituals of Manhood in the Age of Nationalism
Politics of Fathers, Politics of Sons CONCLUSION: THE TROUBLE WITH DADDY ; 6: Returns ; THE RETURN OF PROMETHEUS EFENDI ; WINNERS AND LOSERS ; CONCLUSION: TWO EFENDI GENERATIONS ; Bibliography ; ABBREVIATIONS ; FILMS AND PLAYS ; MAGAZINES ; Index
Summary In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of 'modern men' emerged, the efendiyya, who represented the new middle class elite. This volume explores how they assumed a key political role in the anti-colonial movement and in the building of a modern state both before and after the revolution of 1952
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Middle class -- Political activity -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
Anti-imperialist movements -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
National liberation movements -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt.
Anti-imperialist movements
Middle class -- Political activity
National liberation movements
Politics and government
History.
SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- 1919-1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041307
Egypt -- History -- Revolution, 1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041308
Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1919-1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041323
Subject Egypt
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191504006
0191504009
1306565693
9781306565691
9780191761591
0191761591