ABSTRACT This paper situates two early nahḍāh texts, Takhlīṣ al- Ibrīz fī talkhīṣ Bārīz and ʿAlam al-Dīn in the canonical imaginary of urban modernity. The paper argues that Takhlīṣ and ʿAlam al-Dīn capture the impact of technology and urban culture on literary writing in the nineteenth-century. By analyzing the authorial position of the figure of the Muslim shaykh in the nineteenth -century metropolis the paper traces the rise of a global Arabic literary imaginary. I argue that Takhlīṣ and ʿAlam al-Dīn posit the literary text as an essential site of legibility in an urban culture where circulation, mobility, and visual cognition played significant roles in shaping authorial positions. I examine how those two early nahḍah texts impose a reevaluation of the current canonical knowledge of the practice of flânerie—commonly associated with the bourgeois male figure of the flâneur. The paper analyzes the history of shaykh Ṭahṭāwī’s encounter with the culture of flânerie tracing its influence on ‘Alī Mubārak’s ʿAlam al-Dīn. By situating those early narratives in the canon of urban literature, this paper sheds light on the intersection between literary narratives, circulation, visual culture, and the conditions of unequal literary exchanges in modern urban culture.

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重新思考城市现代性叙事中的欧洲中心主义凝视：Takhlīṣ al-Ibrīz 和 ʿAlam al-Dīn 中的谢赫、流浪者和东方主义者

摘要 本文将两个早期的 nahḍāh 文本，Takhlīṣ al-Ibrīz fī talkhīṣ Bārīz 和 ʿAlam al-Dīn 置于城市现代性的经典想象中。该论文认为，Takhlīṣ 和 ʿAlam al-Dīn 捕捉到了 19 世纪技术和城市文化对文学写作的影响。通过分析 19 世纪大都市中穆斯林谢赫形象的作者地位，本文追溯了全球阿拉伯文学想象的兴起。我认为 Takhlīṣ 和 ʿAlam al-Dīn 将文学文本视为城市文化中可读性的重要场所，其中流通、流动性和视觉认知在塑造作者立场方面发挥了重要作用。我研究了这两个早期的 nahḍah 文本如何强加对当前通常与闲逛的资产阶级男性形象有关的闲逛实践的规范知识的重新评估。本文分析了 shaykh Ṭahṭāwī 与 Flânerie 文化相遇的历史，追溯了其对 'Alī Mubārak 的 ʿAlam al-Dīn 的影响。通过将这些早期叙事置于城市文学经典中，本文揭示了文学叙事、流通、视觉文化以及现代城市文化中文学交流不平等的条件之间的交集。