Lorenzo Casini

Articolo della Rivista, Anno VII, numero 14, dicembre 2017

(The First World War and the new course of Modernist thought in Egypt: An article by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal) in La rivista di Arablit, a. VII, n. 14, dicembre 2017, pp. 7-18. This article centres on the analysis of a long journalistic piece by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal: al-Šarq fī ṭawr ba‘ṯihi (The East in its Renaissance Phase), published in 1928 in a Syrian and an Egyptian magazines. The text represents a significant testimony of the Egyptian and Arab debates on the First World War at the time of the tenth anniversary of its conclusion, but it [...]