Translations of European social thought sparked Egypt’s intellectual and political renaissance

Evidence

According to Lutfi al-Sayyid, Fathi Zaghlul’s translations of Le Bon, and also of Demolins, Bentham, Spencer and Rousseau, ‘were the start of Egypt’s intellectual renaissance along political lines’ (Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid, Egypt and Cromer, p. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 846

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader pattern of colonial-era translation movements mediating Western social science into colonized intellectual life that Mitchell explores throughout the book.