Modern Egyptian Culture | Part 2: Interpreting decline
tarekosman.substack.com
The most fundamental question that faced Egypt, and with it different parts of the Arab and Turkish and Persian speaking orient at the beginning of the nineteenth century was: why did we fall so much far behind Europe, that was few hundred years earlier a backwater lurking under ignorance and crudeness compared to our learned, sumptuous cultures?
Modern Egyptian Culture | Part 2: Interpreting decline
Modern Egyptian Culture | Part 2…
Modern Egyptian Culture | Part 2: Interpreting decline
The most fundamental question that faced Egypt, and with it different parts of the Arab and Turkish and Persian speaking orient at the beginning of the nineteenth century was: why did we fall so much far behind Europe, that was few hundred years earlier a backwater lurking under ignorance and crudeness compared to our learned, sumptuous cultures?