Pyramids, Prophets, and Progress: Ancient Egypt in the Writings of ʿAlī Mubārak

(Extrait de Res.d'A.). The Pharaonic period of Egypt's history has long represented a problem of interpretation for Muslim Egyptians.(...) Despite (...) obstacles, a number of medieval Muslim authors wrote positively of ancient Egypt, creating an interpretive tradition which endured for centuries. During the second half of the nineteenth century, several Egyptian intellectuals, of whom ⊂Alī Mubārak was particularly important, combined that tradition with the European science of Egyptology to articulate both a positive understanding of the full chronology of Egyptian civilization, and a vision of Egypt's contemporary capcity of progress.(...).