Hegel in the Arab World (eBook)

Lorella Ventura is "Cultore della materia” (expert of the subject) in History of Islamic Countries at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. 

1. Introduction Part I. Hegel, the East and the question of “modernity” 2. Widespread views in Hegel's time3. World history and the role of peoples 4. Hegel's view of Islam5. The “modern” West and the non-Western worldPart II. The influence of Hegel's thought in the XIX century 6. Translations and the transmission of “modern” ideas in Muhammad ʿAlī's Egypt7. The foreign universities in Syria: competition among the “West”8. The Syrian Protestant College: between mission and education9. Religion and reason in the view of the American missionaries in Syria10. The presence of Hegelian elements in the thought of Josiah Strong11. The textbooks of Syrian Protestant College and Hegel's philosophy of history12. The Université Saint-Joseph and French culturePart III. The contemporary reception 13. The direct reception of Hegel as a recent phenomenon: Syria and Lebanon14. Hegel today: conversations with Yūsuf Salāma and Joseph Maʿalūf15. Conversations with Ahmad Barqāwī and George Saddiqnī16. Hegel's philosophy of history and the thought of Nadrah al-Yāzajī17. Dialectics and freedom: the interpretation of Hegel in Syria18. The reception of Hegel in Egypt and the “Spirit of time” (Zeitgeist) Appendix. Hegel’s works translated into Arabic