Introduction to Studies on Jurji Zaidan

Jurji Zaidan's Secular Analysis of History and Languages as Foundations of

Arab Nationalism

Foreword by the Zaidan Foundation | The Author and Translators | Preface by the Author |

Table of Contents

Proceedings of a Symposium on Jurji Zaidan’s Contributions to Modern Arab
Thought and Literature

Preface | Table of Contents

Studies on Jurji Zaidan

Jurji Zaidan was a prolific writer with contributions spanning a variety of fields. He was an Arab nationalist, novelist, journalist, historian, linguist, social and political commentator, and educator. The Zaidan Foundation is sponsoring the production of two related but distinct volumes reviewing various aspects of his works:

Jurji Zaidan’s Secular Analysis of History and Languages
as Foundations of Arab Nationalism

By Thomas Philip Including a comprehensive Bibliography of Zaidan’s original and translated works as well as works about him.

With a Foreword by the Zaidan Foundation and a Preface by the Author.

The central theme of this book is to demonstrate how Jurji Zaidan’s secular analysis of history and language influenced the evolution of his Pan-Arab nationalist thought. It traces the manifold relationships between Zaidan’s thinking as a historian, linguist and his views on Arab nationalism. The seminal contribution of this work is that it is the first to anlayze Zaidan’s thought on history, language and nationalism as an integrated whole.

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Jurji Zaidan: His Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature

Edited by Thomas Philipp

Expected to include about twelve essays by noted scholars in various fields assessing Zaidan’s contributions as an Arab nationalist, novelist, journalist, historian, linguist, social and political commentator, and educator.  

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