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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Cairo -- 1. Secularist, Governmental, and Islamist Tanwir Debates in Egypt in the 1990s -- 2. The Deconstruction of the 1990s Egyptian Tanwir Debates by Egyptian Critics at the Turn of the Millennium -- Part II. Damascus -- 3. Tanwir Debates in Syria in the 1990s: The Sisyphean Moment -- 4. Tanwir and the Damascus Spring at the Turn of the Millennium: The Promethean Moment -- Conclusion: Tanwir as Political Humanism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab offers a groundbreaking analysis of Egyptian and Syrian debates over enlightenment and their import for the 2011 uprisings. Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution is the first book to document these debates for the Anglophone audience and to analyze their importance for contemporary intellectual life and politics.