Conceptual History

• July 10, 2026

  Industrie and Al-Industriyya: Translating “Industrialization” in 1860s Egypt

  

  CASAS’ member Amr Khairy has just published this paper in Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics. Abstract: In Egypt, the word “industry” emerged in the 1860s transliterated as al-industriyya (from the French industrie). Rifāʿa al-Ṭahṭāwī, a prominent educator, translator, and man of letters from the 1830s through the 1860s, coined the term and equated…