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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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	xii, 211 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781108492058 1108492053