The Age of the Efendiyya Passages to Modernity in National Colonial Egypt 1st Edition by Lucie Ryzova 0192563736 9780192563736

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ISBN-10 :  0192563736 

ISBN-13 :  9780192563736

Author:  Lucie Ryzova 

In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of “modern men” emerged, the efendiyya. Working as bureaucrats, teachers, journalists, free professionals, and public intellectuals, the efendiyya represented the new middle class elite. They were the experts who drafted and carried out the state’s modernisation policies, and the makers as well as majority consumers of modern forms of politics and national culture. As simultaneously “authentic” and “modern”, they assumed a key political role in the anti-colonial movement and in the building of a modern state both before and after the revolution of 1952. Lucie Ryzova explores where these self-consciously modern men came from, and how they came to be such major figures, by examining multiple social, cultural, and institutional contexts. These contexts include the social strategies pursued by “traditional” households responding to new opportunities for social mobility; modern schools as vehicles for new forms of knowledge dissemination, which had the potential to redefine social authority; but also include new forms of youth culture, student rituals, peer networks, and urban popular culture. The most common modes of self-expression among the effendiyya were through politics and writing (either literature or autobiography). This articulated an efendi culture imbued with a sense of mission, duty, and entitlement, and defined the ways in which their social experiences played into the making of modern Egyptian culture and politics.

The Age of the Efendiyya Passages to Modernity in National Colonial Egypt 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
The Saint’s Lamp
The Age of the Efendiyya
History from the Middle
Efendi Culture, Efendi State
A Note on Sources: Junk as Archive
Overview of Chapters
2. Recognizing the Efendi
Recognizing the Efendi
The Practice of Everyday Efendihood
What is the Efendi?
The Discreet Charms of a New Bourgeoisie and the Hilarious Vulgarity of Imposters
Performing Modernity in Everyday Practice
Structuring the Efendi Social Landscape
The Blacksmith’s Son: Building Modern Egypt
The Doctor: Recipe for Modernity
Conclusion: The Productivity of Borders
3. Hearts Full of Hope
Becoming Efendi
First Generation Efendifi cation: Choices and Strategies
Tales of the First Suit
Combining and Switching Curricula
Oldest Brothers’ Role and Sacrifi ce
From Austerity (al-takashshuf) to Refi nement (al-taraqqi)
Educational Dilemmas, Educational Economies
Interpreting Educational Dilemmas
Tropes of Struggle, Tropes of Luck
Th e Economies of Education
The Culture of Social Mobility
Negotiating the Bottom Boundary
Sitt Umm Efendi: Mothers’ Struggles for efendifi cation
The Instincts of the Elders
The miri Mystique and the Lure of the wazifa
Conclusion: Modernity from the Middle
4. Passages to Modernity
Introduction: Deserters and Better Life Seekers
Departures
The Rules of the Journey
The Past is a Foreign Country
Genealogies of the Self: Nation, Family, Generation
Illustrious Struggles
Auto-Efendification
Lonely in the Fields
Takwin, or the Sources of Metamorphosis: Movies, Books, Trains, and People
Life is Elsewhere
Tathqif, or the ‘Open University’
Conclusion: Out with the Old . . .
5. The New Mamluks
‘In the great capital at the beginning of winter . . .’
Strangers in the Big City
The Day the Parents Died
Making Youth
Big Men and Little Men
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
When the Lights Go Down in Cairo
Writing Revolts
Back ‘Home’? The Long Summer Holiday Tales
Young Men Rising
Loyalty Redefined
Rituals of Manhood in the Age of Nationalism
Politics of Fathers, Politics of Sons
Conclusion: The Trouble with Daddy
6. Returns
The Return of Prometheus Efendi
Winners and Losers
Conclusion: Two Efendi Generations

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