‘Their Blood is Eastern’: Shahin Makaryus andFin de SiècleArab Pride in the Jewish ‘Race’

Autor: Jonathan Marc Gribetz
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Middle Eastern Studies. 49:143-161
ISSN: 1743-7881
0026-3206
DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2012.759107
Popis: This article studies the origins and functions of a belief in Jewish race in the Arab fin de siecle through a case study of the writings of Shahin Makaryus and al-Muqtaṭaf, the influential journal he co-edited. The article begins by examining the racial definition of the Jews proffered by Makaryus and al-Muqtaṭaf. It situates this view, first, within the then-recent controversy surrounding Darwinism and the problem of secularism within the Arab renaissance of the fin de siecle and, second, within the contemporary Egyptian discourse about race concerning Egypt's rule over the Sudan. It then studies the presumed implications of this categorization of the Jews for their supposed racial relatives, the Arabs. It argues that it was precisely the imagined racial link between Jews and Arabs that made race an attractive category for understanding the Jews in the minds of certain Nahda thinkers. Next, it examines Makaryus's approach to Jewish nationalism and Zionism and contends that his apparent sympathy toward th...
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