Lexicon · Concepts
Sociological concepts in Arabic, English, and, where available, French.
Middle class, al-ṭabaqa al-wusṭā or al-ṭabaqa al-mutawassiṭa
The concept of the ‘middle class’ is one of the many linguistic and intellectual imports of the Nahḍa, the intellectual Renaissance movement that spanned the second half of the nineteenth …Society, al-mujtamaʿ
Mujtamaʿ has established itself as the Arabic key concept for society since about the 1940s. Before, various terms were competing over the semantic field of society. Most notably among these are al-…Browse the full alphabetical index of concepts
