caa a22 4500 388101199 CHVBK 20180307125321.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800052983 doi S0020743800052983 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800052983 Print Culture, Social Change, and the Process of Redefining Imagined Communities in Egypt; Response to the Review by Charles D. Smith of Redefining the Egyptian Nation (IJMES 29, 4 [1997]: 606-22) [Elektronische Daten] Charles D. Smith's review essay on our book Redefining the Egyptian Nation in the October 1997 issue of IJMES undertakes a critical analysis of the work. Simultaneously, it raises broader questions about the relevance of some of the insights of theoreticians of nationalism, particularly Benedict Anderson, to the case of Egyptian nationalism. The essay's attempt to evaluate the utility of recent theoretical writing on nationalism for the study of the Middle East is a worthwhile endeavor. However, we believe that the essay's analysis of the book itself is based on a familiarity with only a small selection of the sources relevant to understanding Egyptian nationalism, and that it provides a misleading interpretation of the contents of the work. We also feel that its observations about nationalist theory sometimes misconstrue our use of the same, and in general underestimate the importance of recent theoretical work on nationalism for the study of Egypt and the Middle East. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Gershoni Israel Israel Gershoni is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel. Jankowski James James Jankowski is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 80309, U.S.A. International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/1(1999-02), 81-94 0020-7438 31:1<81 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800052983 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800052983 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gershoni Israel Israel Gershoni is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jankowski James James Jankowski is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 80309, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/1(1999-02), 81-94 0020-7438 31:1<81 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge