dc.contributor.author |
Hamade, Mohamad Yahia Hassan, |
dc.date.accessioned |
2017-08-30T14:28:40Z |
dc.date.available |
2017-08-30T14:28:40Z |
dc.date.issued |
2016 |
dc.date.submitted |
2016 |
dc.identifier.other |
b18697902 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/11102 |
dc.description |
Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Center for American Studies and Research, 2016. Pj:1890 |
dc.description |
First reader : Dr. Nadya Jeanne Sbaiti, Assistant Professor, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies ; Second reader : Dr. Lisa Lynn Hajjar, Visiting Professor, Center for American Studies and Research. |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-77) |
dc.description.abstract |
My project charts the historical context of conflicts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that coincided with the founding of the Syrian Protestant College (SPC) in Beirut. I am interested in documenting how two college crises expose the redefinition of missionary work by examining a multitude of views on modernity and liberalism manifest at SPC. My project contributes to debates on how the faculty and the students adopt political liberalism differently, both of who maintain their religious and moral views, but also engage in social cooperation for the advancement of SPC. I fill a gap in the critical literature of exposing crucial turning points in the transnational history that influenced the founding of a university at the peripheries of the Ottoman Empire. The ensuing discussion reveals the silent context and often overlooked students that defined the onset of intellectualism in contemporary Beirut, where AUB remains an important intellectual space in the Middle East and North Africa. |
dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (vii, 77 leaves) |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Theses, Dissertations, and Projects |
dc.subject.classification |
Pj:001890 |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Syrian Protestant College -- History. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
American University of Beirut -- Students. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Education, Higher -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Liberalism -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Protestants -- Missions -- Lebanon -- History. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Missionaries -- Lebanon -- History. |
dc.title |
Bathish or Bat-heesh : learning to be modern at the Syrian Protestant College - |
dc.type |
Project |
dc.contributor.department |
Faculty of Arts and Sciences. |
dc.contributor.department |
Center for American Studies and Research, |
dc.contributor.institution |
American University of Beirut. |