Practicing Islam in Egypt - Print Media and Islamic Revival

List of contents

Acknowledgments; A note on transliteration and spelling; Introduction; 1. Mind before matter: visions of religious change in post-colonial Egypt; 2. Currents of religious change: ideological transmission and local mobilization; 3. Could the state serve Islam? The rise and fall of Islamist educational reform; 4. Prayer and the Islamic revival: a timely challenge; 5. Beyond fitna: the emergence of Islamic norms of comportment; 6. The ambiguous legacy of the Islamic revival: how women emerged as a barometer of public morality; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Aaron Rock-Singer is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University, New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, New Jersey.

Summary

Following the ideological disappointment of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, an Islamic revival arose in Egypt. Here, Rock-Singer looks beyond the artificial divide between state institutions and Islamic activists and melds social and intellectual history to show how Egypt's Islamic revival emerged, who it involved, and why it still shapes Egypt today.

Additional text

'Upending scholarly claims of Islam's discursive continuity against secular modernity, Rock-Singer keenly details postcolonial Egyptian Islamic movements' profound contemporaneity - their affinities with the postcolonial state and non-Muslim revivals, their immersion in mass media, and much more. In reframing Islam and politics, Practicing Islam in Egypt illuminates the late modern 'return of religion' more broadly.' Emilio Ibrahim Spadola, Tufts University, Massachusetts

Product details

• Authors: Rock-Singer Aaron Rock-Singer, Aaron Rock-Singer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108710053
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71005-3
• No. of pages: 223
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Islam, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Islamic Studies, General & world history, General and world history, Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology, Ancient Egyptian religion & mythology, Religion and beliefs, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities