Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media and Islamic Revival
Cambridge University Press, 1/3/2019
EAN 9781108492058, ISBN10: 1108492053
Hardcover, 222 pages, 22.1 x 14.9 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
Following the ideological disappointment of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, an Islamic revival arose in Egypt. Yet, far from a mechanical reaction to the decline of secular nationalism, this religious shift was the product of impassioned competition among Muslim Brothers, Salafis and state institutions and their varied efforts to mobilize Egyptians to their respective projects. By pulling together the linked stories of these diverse claimants to religious authority and tracing the social and intellectual history of everyday practices of piety, Aaron Rock-Singer shows how Islamic activists and institutions across the political spectrum reshaped daily practices in an effort to persuade followers to adopt novel models of religiosity. In so doing, he reveals how Egypt's Islamic revival emerged, who it involved, and why it continues to shape Egypt today.
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.