Originally published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1979.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and indexes.
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1. The social and economic history of Egypt, 1760-1815: a study in merchant capital and its transformation -- 2. The religious framework of the eighteenth-century revival -- 3. The cultural revival of the late eighteenth century: literature, language sciences and history -- 4. The decline of the eighteenth-century cultural revival: the formation of Shaykh Hasan al-Attar -- 5. Turkey and Syria in the early nineteenth century: the travels of al-Attar and the preparation for Egyptian reform -- 6. The Muhammad Ali period, 1815-1837: state commercial sector and the second phase of the cultural awakening in Egypt -- 7. The revival of theology and Kalam: hallmarks of the culture of the state commercial sector -- 8. The reform period, 1815-1837, and the development of neoclassical culture: the study of language sciences, literature, and history -- 9. The world market as a limiting factor in the development of neoclassicism: the case of science and medicine.