Practicing Islam in Egypt: print media and Islamic revival

"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 steadil...

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1. Verfasser: Rock-Singer, Aaron (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
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Zusammenfassung:"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"...
Beschreibung:Acknowledgements: "This book was born as a dissertation in Princeton’s Department of Near Eastern Studies. Its origin, however, can be traced to the Fall of 2004 ... In Israel, Meir Hatina hosted me at the Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during the 2014–15 academic year when I wrote most of the original dissertation"
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 211 Seiten) Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9781108590877
DOI:10.1017/9781108590877

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