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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Edition: | First paperback edition |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt
/ Islam
/ Fundamentalism
/ Print media
/ History 1970-1981
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| Further subjects: | B
Islam and politics (Egypt)
B Islam (Egypt) |
| 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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| ISBN: | 1108492053 |