Practicing Islam in Egypt : print media and Islamic revival /

Practicing Islam in Egypt : print media and Islamic revival /

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Author / Creator:	Rock-Singer, Aaron, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xii, 211 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Islam -- Egypt. Islam and politics -- Egypt. Islam. Islam and politics. Egypt.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11787570

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ISBN:	9781108492058 1108492053
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"For many, the signal event in the history of Islamic activism in Anwar al-Sadat's Egypt is his stunning assassination in October 1981 by the Jihad group, members of which would go on to form al-Qaeda. Other accounts of this period have examined the ways that the Muslim Brotherhood steadily rebuilt their shattered organization around a "Parallel Islamic sector" operating on the margins of state control. These events, however, were only one manifestation of a much deeper and broader trend of Islamic revival that would redefine social norms. Under Sadat, Egyptian society saw a decisive turn in public debate and practice: from calls for the application of Islamic law to the crowded mosques across Egyptian cities to the self-consciously modest dress and pious comportment, Egyptian Muslims increasingly applied Islam to their daily lives"--

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