Pierre Cachia’s masterful literary biography of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1956) identified cultural exchange and particularly translation as the catalyst for the Egyptian cultural and literary renaissance epitomized in the person of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1889-1973). This paper takes Cachia as a point of departure and pursues an understanding of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn within the framework of world literature and locates his vision of Egyptian modernity and national identity in the circulation of ideas, concepts, bodies of knowledge and worldviews in the Mediterranean world. It focuses on the role of Orientalism and European Classicism in the cosmopolitanism underpinning his program of cultural and educational reform, and interrogates the conceptual category of “nation,” narratives of Nahḍah , and theories of world literature.

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东方主义与世界文学：重读Ṭāhā Ḥusayn 的文学世界中的世界主义

Pierre Cachia 出色的 Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1956) 文学传记将文化交流，特别是翻译确定为以 Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1889-1973) 为代表的埃及文化和文学复兴的催化剂。本文以卡奇亚为出发点，在世界文学的框架内追求对Ṭāhā Ḥusayn的理解，并将他对埃及现代性和民族认同的看法定位在地中海世界的思想、概念、知识体系和世界观的流通中。它侧重于东方主义和欧洲古典主义在支持他的文化和教育改革计划的世界主义中的作用，并询问了“民族”的概念类别、Nahḍah 的叙事和世界文学理论。