Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt

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Arab Patriotism presents the essential backstory to the formation of the modern nation-state and mass nationalism in the Middle East. While standard histories claim that the roots of Arab nationalism emerged in opposition to the Ottoman milieu, Adam Mestyan points to the patriotic sentiment that grew in the Egyptian province of the Ottoman Empire d

Adam Mestyan is assistant professor of history at Duke University.

"This study is a significant step in clarifying identity in the Arab provinces during the 19th century regarding both the Ottoman Empire and within the provinces themselves." * Choice * "Mestyan is at his best when he excavates and reconstructs lines connecting diverse and often obscure individuals to equally diverse institutions of power."---Wilson Chacko Jacob, American Historical Review "Adam Mestyan's Arab Patriotism is an ambitious project on the Ottoman province of Egypt . . . in the nineteenth century."---Side Emre, Bustan "Arab Patriotism is an ambitious study. Dealing with Egyptian history from the 1830s to the 1890s, it addresses two hitherto relatively unexplored subjects. . . . Throughout, the study presents fresh material and opens new perspectives on Egyptian history. The book is a significant contribution to the history of modern Egypt."---James Jankowski, Journal of Arabic Literature