From Translation to Critique
The Formation of the New Arab Left in Beirut 1960s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13104560 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ahmad Agbaria (0000-0003-0651-0602, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 593-610 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Intellectual History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2380-1883 • E-ISSN: 2380-1891 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23801883.2020.1861550 |
| OpenAlex | W3117001524 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 24 |
The New Arab Left laid the foundations for a new intellectual age in the post-colonial Arab world. In the 1960s, a group of exiled scholars, mostly from Syria, popularized many of the current ideas, vocabularies, and social visions that informed a host of political institutions in Lebanon, Syria and far beyond. This article explores the connections that bind together this group of young and worldly Arab translators, who brought Marxist understandings to critique and demythologize Islam, Arab culture and its heritage. By fashioning a new method of radical critique, they reconceptualized Islam and Arab heritage as cultural problems. Who were the leading figures of this group of social critics and why are they important to study? Why did they insist on anti-clericalism when the Euro-American writers abandoned theological critique altogether and renounced ‘vulgar Marxism,’? This article grapples with these questions in order to frame the New Arab Left and illuminate its role in shaping Arab intellectual debates about Islam, the past and post-colonial conditions in the 1960s. I argue that cultural change can be traced back to a single movement of devoted persons who gave focus to the prevailing dissatisfactions among their people
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What Went Wrong?
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Desiring Arabs
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939
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History of the Arabs
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Revolution and Disenchantment
Rethinking Translation
Marxism Beyond Marxism
The new Arab left and 1967
The Emergence of the Sixties Generation in Egypt and the Anxiety over Categorization1
Private Publishing in the Nahḍa
The Generation of Broad Expectations
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
Secularism, Hermeneutics, and Empire
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |