caa a22 4500 388101180 CHVBK 20180307125321.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800052995 doi S0020743800052995 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800052995 Smith Charles D. Charles D. Smith is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona at Tucson, Ariz. 85721, U.S.A. "Cultural Constructs” and other Fantasies: Imagined Narratives in Imagined Communities; Surrejoinder to Gershoni and Jankowski's "Print Culture, Social Change, and the Process of Redefining Imagined Communities in Egypt” [Elektronische Daten] [Charles D. Smith] Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski provide a spirited defense of their book, Redefining the Egyptian Nation, which I critiqued in the November 1997 issue of IJMES. They explain their ideas on nationalism and how they purportedly applied them in the book, and conclude that I have misread "both modern nationalism and Egyptian history.” That remains to be seen. What is certain is that one cannot find in Redefining the Egyptian Nation the analysis of the thought of Benedict Anderson and Anthony D. Smith presented in their response ("Print Culture, Social Change, and the Process of Redefining Imagined Communities in Egypt,” present issue). Neither can one find in Imagined Communities the ideas and the stress on "nationalism as a cultural construct” that they attribute to Anderson. Gershoni and Jankowski now allege intentions and arguments for books whose texts do not contain what they ascribe to them. Their claims here for Redefining the Egyptian Nation appear to reflect the more extensive reading on nationalism which they did for their recent co-edited book Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East rather than a familiarity with the literature evidenced in the book under discussion, which was published four years ago. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/1(1999-02), 95-102 0020-7438 31:1<95 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800052995 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800052995 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Smith Charles D. Charles D. Smith is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona at Tucson, Ariz. 85721, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/1(1999-02), 95-102 0020-7438 31:1<95 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge