Coloniality, Modernity and European Knowledge in al-Ṭahṭāwī’s Taḫlīṣ al-ibrīz fī talḫīṣ Bārīz

Articolo della rivista, Anno VIII, numero 15, giugno 2018
This paper examines the attitude towards European coloniality expressed in one of the earliest Nahdawist1 works. It argues that this attitude is inextricably connected to the problematics of indigenizing European modernity and the consequent epistemological effects of this process. The discussion is centered on al-Ṭahṭāwī’s text because of its foundational [...]