Israel Gershoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 134038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Israel Gershoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Israel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gershoni |
| SIGNATURE | GERSHONI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century
Decolonisation in the Age of Colonial Enlightenment: Aḥmad Luṭfī al-Sayyid and the Struggle for Egyptian Independence, 1907–19
Aḥmad Luṭfī al-Sayyid (1872–1963) stands among the most creative and impactful modern Egyptian intellectuals. Commonly held historiography identifies him as an apologist and collaborator with British colonialism. This article casts doubt on this view, arguing that a close reading of Luṭfī’s writing alongside understanding his activism can be more accurately contextualised within the constructs of Enlightened decolonialism. By reviewing Luṭfī’s na…
Local Enlightenment in the Colonial Period: Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid in Perspective
Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid (1872–1963) was among modern Egypt’s most influential public intellectuals. Through the pages of his daily, al-Jarida, Lutfi al-Sayyid developed a robust and implementable plan for domesticating the Enlightenment’s principles, values, and institutions for integration into his local Egyptian environment. While mainstream historiography approaches Lutfi al-Sayyid exclusively as a Pharaonicist Egyptian nationalist, and therefor…
Maha Nassar. Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World
Journal Article Maha Nassar. Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World. Get access Maha Nassar. Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. Pp. 268. Paper $26.00. Israel Gershoni Israel Gershoni Tel Aviv University, Israel Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Re…
Depoliticization and Denationalization of Religion: Aḥmad Luṭfī al-Sayyid and the Relocation of Islam in Modern Life
Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism: Attraction and Repulsion
The first book to present an analysis of Arab response to fascism and Nazism from the perspectives of both individual countries and the Arab world at large, this collection problematizes and ultimately deconstructs the established narratives that assume most Arabs supported fascism and Nazism leading up to and during World War II. Using new source materials taken largely from Arab memoirs, archives, and print media, the articles reexamine Egyptia…
Why the Muslims Must Fight against Nazi Germany: Muḥammad Najātī Ṣidqī's Plea
The term "Islamofascism" has developed and taken root only recently. It is part of a terminology that has been integrated into the academic and pseudo-academic discourse, which defines and explains contemporary global Islamic jihadism. In real time, in the 1930s and during the Second World War, 1933-1945, this term was totally alien to Muslim intellectuals in Egypt and in the Arab Middle East. Islam and fascism or Islam and Nazism were perceived …
Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century
The Politics of Memory: The Necessity for Historical Investigation into Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism
This essay highlights the recent developments in the study of Arab responses to Fascism and Nazism between 1933 and 1945. It analyzes old approaches and paradigms that have emphasized the sympathy and collaboration of Arab leaders and forces with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. In criticizing these dominant research trends, the essay argues that it is mostly memories and political narratives produced in a later period which were responsible for s…
Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s
A new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and military support of Axis powers, this work reveals that the shapers of Egyptian public opinion were largely unreceptive to fascism, openly rejecting totalitarian ideas and practices, Nazi racism, and Italy's and Germany's expansionist and imperialist agendas
Introduction: Intellectual History in Middle Eastern Studies
Research Article| December 01 2008 Introduction: Intellectual History in Middle Eastern Studies Israel Gershoni; Israel Gershoni Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amy Singer Amy Singer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 383–389. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2008-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Commemorating the Nation: Collective Memory, Public Commemoration, and National Identity in Twentieth-century Egypt
Prologue: First Egyptian Sculptor since the Age of the Pharaohs 2. Mahmud Mukhtar: an Egyptian Childhood, a Parisian Education 3. Nahdat Misr: Inspiration and Influences 4. Neo-{haraonism and the Fine Arts in Independent Egypt 5. Politics and Commemoration: the Construction of Nahdat Misr as a National Monument 6. The Heroic Moment: the Unveiling of Nahdat Misr 7. Commemoration and Partisan Politics: Mahmud Mukhtar's Statues of Sacd Zaghlul 8. Ma…
Donald Malcolm Reid, Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (Berkeley: (University of California Press, 2002). Pp. 426
D Onald M Alcolm R EID , Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology , Museums , and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (Berkeley: (University of California Press, 2002). Pp. 426
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Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions
Reflecting cutting-edge scholarship and covering more than two centuries of change, this seminal collection represents key trends in the historiography of the modern Middle East. The authors each combine a methodological theme with concrete, original research, relating theoretical issues to the actual writing of history. Their topics range from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to globalization, from well-established historical figures to new acto…
The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths
Print Culture, Social Change, and the Process of Redefining Imagined Communities in Egypt; Response to the Review by Charles D. Smith of Redefining the Egyptian Nation ( Ijmes 29, 4 [1997]: (606–22)
Charles D. Smith's review essay on our book Redefining the Egyptian Nation in the October 1997 issue of IJMES undertakes a critical analysis of the work. Simultaneously, it raises broader questions about the relevance of some of the insights of theoreticians of nationalism, particularly Benedict Anderson, to the case of Egyptian nationalism. The essay's attempt to evaluate the utility of recent theoretical writing on nationalism for the study of …
Egyptian Liberalism in an Age of “Crisis of Orientation”: Al-Risāla'S Reaction to Fascism and Nazism, 1933–39
The 1930s are generally represented as a decade of crisis in Egypt's liberal experiment. In this conventional interpretation, a clear and acute expression of the crisis can be found in the intellectual discourse. The transition of Egyptian intellectuals to the large-scale production of Islamic literature (islāmiyyāt), books and texts dealing with classical Islamic themes and heroes, particularly biographies of the Prophet and al-Khulafā⊂ al-Rāshi…
The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths
Contributors, consisting of historians and other scholars from Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Europe, Israel, Sudan, and the US, trace the complex intercultural relations that have revolved around the Nile River throughout recorded history. The volume's 20 articles focus on four themes: peoples and identities in medieval times; the Nile as seen from a distance (such as from Europe and as a gateway for missionary activity); mid-century perspectives; an…
Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945
Redefining the Egyptian Nation: 1930-1945
Redefining The Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945
Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East
Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945
Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930–1945
The authors examine the emergence of nationalism among the Egyptian middle class during the 1930s and 1940s, and its growing awareness of an Arab and Muslim identity. Previously Egypt did not define itself in these terms, but adopted a territorial and isolationist outlook. It is the revolutionary transformation in Egyptian self-understanding which took place during this period that provides the focus of this study. The authors demonstrate how the…
Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East
The Muslim brothers and the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936–39
(1986). The Muslim brothers and the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936–39. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 367-397
Egyptian Liberalism in an Age of “Crisis of Orientation”: Al-Risāla'S Reaction to Fascism and Nazism, 1933–39
The 1930s are generally represented as a decade of crisis in Egypt's liberal experiment. In this conventional interpretation, a clear and acute expression of the crisis can be found in the intellectual discourse. The transition of Egyptian intellectuals to the large-scale production of Islamic literature (islāmiyyāt), books and texts dealing with classical Islamic themes and heroes, particularly biographies of the Prophet and al-Khulafā⊂ al-Rāshi…
The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths
Why the Muslims Must Fight against Nazi Germany: Muḥammad Najātī Ṣidqī's Plea
The term "Islamofascism" has developed and taken root only recently. It is part of a terminology that has been integrated into the academic and pseudo-academic discourse, which defines and explains contemporary global Islamic jihadism. In real time, in the 1930s and during the Second World War, 1933-1945, this term was totally alien to Muslim intellectuals in Egypt and in the Arab Middle East. Islam and fascism or Islam and Nazism were perceived …
Introduction: Intellectual History in Middle Eastern Studies
Research Article| December 01 2008 Introduction: Intellectual History in Middle Eastern Studies Israel Gershoni; Israel Gershoni Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amy Singer Amy Singer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 383–389. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2008-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
"The Reader-"Another Production: The Reception of Haykal's Biography of Muhammad and the Shift of Egyptian Intellectuals to Islamic Subjects in the 1930s
Israel Gershoni, The Reader-"Another Production": The Reception of Haykal's Biography of Muhammad and the Shift of Egyptian Intellectuals to Islamic Subjects in the 1930s, Poetics Today, Vol. 15, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Modern Period II (Summer, 1994), pp. 241-277
The Evolution of National Culture in Modern Egypt: Intellectual Formation and Social Diffusion, 1892-1945
This paper describes both the general historical framework within which modern national culture arose in Egyptian society and its transformation into a major culture within that society.' More precisely, it examines the central processes of this development in the formative period: from the culture's incipient emergence in the late nineteenth century (specifically, since the 1890s, when the Egyptian nationalist movement became active) until its i…
The Emergence of Pan-Arabism in Egypt
Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The search for Egyptian nationhood, 1900-1930
The Muslim brothers and the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936–39
(1986). The Muslim brothers and the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936–39. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 367-397
Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930
Tinker, Tailor, and Textile Worker: Class and Politics in Egypt, 1930-1952
A Fabian in Egypt: Salamah Musa and the Rise of Professional Classes in Egypt, 1909-1939
The first book-length analysis of Salamah Musa (1889o1958), who provoked and astounded Egypt for decades with his trenchant criticism of the nation's social order. The book demonstrates that underlying Musa's ideas was his advocacy of the interests of an emerging technical and administrative elite which attempted to carve a niche for itself in Egypt's agrarian society
The Evolution of National Culture in Modern Egypt: Intellectual Formation and Social Diffusion, 1892-1945
This paper describes both the general historical framework within which modern national culture arose in Egyptian society and its transformation into a major culture within that society.' More precisely, it examines the central processes of this development in the formative period: from the culture's incipient emergence in the late nineteenth century (specifically, since the 1890s, when the Egyptian nationalist movement became active) until its i…
"The Reader-"Another Production: The Reception of Haykal's Biography of Muhammad and the Shift of Egyptian Intellectuals to Islamic Subjects in the 1930s
Israel Gershoni, The Reader-"Another Production": The Reception of Haykal's Biography of Muhammad and the Shift of Egyptian Intellectuals to Islamic Subjects in the 1930s, Poetics Today, Vol. 15, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Modern Period II (Summer, 1994), pp. 241-277
Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930–1945
The authors examine the emergence of nationalism among the Egyptian middle class during the 1930s and 1940s, and its growing awareness of an Arab and Muslim identity. Previously Egypt did not define itself in these terms, but adopted a territorial and isolationist outlook. It is the revolutionary transformation in Egyptian self-understanding which took place during this period that provides the focus of this study. The authors demonstrate how the…
Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East
Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945
Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945
Redefining the Egyptian Nation: 1930-1945
Redefining The Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945
Print Culture, Social Change, and the Process of Redefining Imagined Communities in Egypt; Response to the Review by Charles D. Smith of Redefining the Egyptian Nation ( Ijmes 29, 4 [1997]: (606–22)
Charles D. Smith's review essay on our book Redefining the Egyptian Nation in the October 1997 issue of IJMES undertakes a critical analysis of the work. Simultaneously, it raises broader questions about the relevance of some of the insights of theoreticians of nationalism, particularly Benedict Anderson, to the case of Egyptian nationalism. The essay's attempt to evaluate the utility of recent theoretical writing on nationalism for the study of …
Egyptian Liberalism in an Age of “Crisis of Orientation”: Al-Risāla'S Reaction to Fascism and Nazism, 1933–39
The 1930s are generally represented as a decade of crisis in Egypt's liberal experiment. In this conventional interpretation, a clear and acute expression of the crisis can be found in the intellectual discourse. The transition of Egyptian intellectuals to the large-scale production of Islamic literature (islāmiyyāt), books and texts dealing with classical Islamic themes and heroes, particularly biographies of the Prophet and al-Khulafā⊂ al-Rāshi…
The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths
Contributors, consisting of historians and other scholars from Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Europe, Israel, Sudan, and the US, trace the complex intercultural relations that have revolved around the Nile River throughout recorded history. The volume's 20 articles focus on four themes: peoples and identities in medieval times; the Nile as seen from a distance (such as from Europe and as a gateway for missionary activity); mid-century perspectives; an…
The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths
Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions
Reflecting cutting-edge scholarship and covering more than two centuries of change, this seminal collection represents key trends in the historiography of the modern Middle East. The authors each combine a methodological theme with concrete, original research, relating theoretical issues to the actual writing of history. Their topics range from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to globalization, from well-established historical figures to new acto…
Commemorating the Nation: Collective Memory, Public Commemoration, and National Identity in Twentieth-century Egypt
Prologue: First Egyptian Sculptor since the Age of the Pharaohs 2. Mahmud Mukhtar: an Egyptian Childhood, a Parisian Education 3. Nahdat Misr: Inspiration and Influences 4. Neo-{haraonism and the Fine Arts in Independent Egypt 5. Politics and Commemoration: the Construction of Nahdat Misr as a National Monument 6. The Heroic Moment: the Unveiling of Nahdat Misr 7. Commemoration and Partisan Politics: Mahmud Mukhtar's Statues of Sacd Zaghlul 8. Ma…
Donald Malcolm Reid, Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (Berkeley: (University of California Press, 2002). Pp. 426
D Onald M Alcolm R EID , Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology , Museums , and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (Berkeley: (University of California Press, 2002). Pp. 426
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction: Intellectual History in Middle Eastern Studies
Research Article| December 01 2008 Introduction: Intellectual History in Middle Eastern Studies Israel Gershoni; Israel Gershoni Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amy Singer Amy Singer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 383–389. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2008-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s
A new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and military support of Axis powers, this work reveals that the shapers of Egyptian public opinion were largely unreceptive to fascism, openly rejecting totalitarian ideas and practices, Nazi racism, and Italy's and Germany's expansionist and imperialist agendas
Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century
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