Abdul Rahman Al-Jabarti: The Egyptian intelligentsia in the era of nationalism

Say Salah Issa in his important study about Abdul Rahman Al-Jabarti and the educated Egyptian class in the era of nationalism: "To some extent, the problem of awareness of our Arab heritage almost exemplifies the problem of our awareness of the present, and our comprehension of it, and thus the correctness of our interaction with it. We rarely look at the past with a perspective that sees the comprehensiveness of its economic, social, and intellectual phenomena, and while some drown themselves in memorizing texts and reciting them mechanically, turning them into statements above time and place, others deal with these texts completely abandoning the method of sanctifying them, but at the same time they are unable to re-understand them as part of a comprehensive overall phenomenon, which explains it and is explained by it." Author: Salah Issa Number of pages: 176 Publisher: Dar Al-Karma