Islamic Knowledge And The Making Of Modern Egypt

Author : Hilary Kalmbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108423477
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt written by Hilary Kalmbach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Egypt's first teacher-training school, exploring 130 years of tension over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres.

Author : Michael Ezekiel Gasper
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080476980X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Representation written by Michael Ezekiel Gasper and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Representation traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s. During this period, a new class of Egyptian urban intellectuals—teachers, lawyers, engineers, clerks, accountants, and journalists—came into prominence. Adapting modern ideas of individual moral autonomy and universal citizenship, this group reconfigured religiously informed notions of the self and created a national sense of "Egyptian-ness" drawn from ideas about Egypt's large peasant population. The book breaks new ground by calling into question the notion, common in historiography of the modern Middle East and the Muslim world in general, that in the nineteenth century "secular" aptitudes and areas of competency were somehow separate from "religious" ones. Instead, by tying the burgeoning Islamic modernist movement to the process of identity formation and its attendant political questions Michael Gasper shows how religion became integral to modern Egyptian political, social, and cultural life.

Author : Dwight F. Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521898072
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture written by Dwight F. Reynolds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and wide-ranging survey of modern Arab culture covering political, intellectual and social aspects.

Author : Mohammad Salama
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108417183
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt written by Mohammad Salama and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the influence of Islam, as a religion, a practice, and a tradition, on Egypt's visual and literary modernity.

Author : Israel Gershoni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523301
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945 written by Israel Gershoni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the emergence of nationalism among the Egyptian middle class during the 1930s and 1940s, and its growing awareness of an Arab and Muslim identity. Previously Egypt did not define itself in these terms, but adopted a territorial and isolationist outlook. It is the revolutionary transformation in Egyptian self-understanding which took place during this period that provides the focus of this study. The authors demonstrate how the growth of an urban middle class, combined with economic and political failures in the 1930s, eroded the foundations of the earlier order. Alongside domestic events, the momentum of Arabism abroad and the impact of events in Palestine, necessitated Egyptian regional involvement. Egypt's present position as a major player in Arab, Muslim and Third World affairs has its roots in the fundamental transition of Egyptian national identity at this time.

Author : Margot Badran
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821436
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminists, Islam, and Nation written by Margot Badran and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam.

Author : Khaled Fahmy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520395611
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Quest of Justice written by Khaled Fahmy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari’a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were introduced, Khaled Fahmy offers exciting new interpretations that are neither colonial nor nationalist. Moreover he shows how lower-class Egyptians did not see modern practices that fused medical and legal purposes in new ways as contrary to Islam. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and modernity.

Author : Margot Badran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691026053
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminists, Islam, and Nation written by Margot Badran and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources - memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories - Feminists, Islam, and Nation tells this story. Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam. Badran offers an innovative reinterpretation of modern Egyptian history by demonstrating the gendered nature of nationalist, Islamic, and imperialist discourses. The book shows how Egyptian women, attentive to the implications of gender, played vital roles, both as movement activists and everyday pioneers, in the construction of citizenship and the institutions of a modern state and civil society. Badran argues further that, of all the forces that shaped and reshaped modern Egypt, feminism constituted the most sustained critique - from within - of state and society. Feminists, Islam, and Nation not only expands our understanding of modern Egypt and our historical knowledge of feminist movements, but also contributes toward theorizing and further defining feminism.

Author : Hussein Ali Agrama
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226010686
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questioning Secularism written by Hussein Ali Agrama and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In this work, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusing on the fatwa councils and family law courts of Egypt just prior to the revolution, he delves deeply into the meaning of secularism itself and the ambiguities that lie at its heart.

Author : Sami Al-Daghistani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108997546
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Islamic Economic Thought written by Sami Al-Daghistani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogating the development and conceptual framework of economic thought in the Islamic tradition pertaining to ethical, philosophical, and theological ideas, this book provides a critique of modern Islamic economics as a hybrid economic system. From the outset, Sami Al-Daghistani is concerned with the polyvalent methodology of studying the phenomenon of Islamic economic thought as a human science in that it nurtures a complex plentitude of meanings and interpretations associated with the moral self. By studying legal scholars, theologians, and Sufis in the classical period, Al-Daghistani looks at economic thought in the context of Sharī'a's moral law. Alongside critiquing modern developments of Islamic economics, he puts forward an idea for a plural epistemology of Islam's moral economy, which advocates for a multifaceted hermeneutical reading of the subject in light of a moral law, embedded in a particular cosmology of human relationality, metaphysical intelligibility, and economic subjectivity.