... Isfahani Abu al Faraj al Saladin education Great Britain Najm Muhammad Yusuf Syrians in Egypt gender Jurji Zaydan Arab Christians Syrian Protestant College Lebanese emigration Islamic history historical novel Arabic novel The 1890s witnessed one of the most intriguing phenomena of modern...

... Anti-Semitism Pan-Islam Arab Christians Jurji Zaydan Jews This chapter considers the writing about ‘empire’ and ‘Judaism’, and the connections between the two concepts, in Egypt during the long 1890s, through a close reading of works by novelist and intellectual Farah Antun (1874–1922). I...