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020			_a9781108710053
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100	1		_aAaron Rock-Singer
245	1	0	_aPracticing Islam in Egypt: _bPrint Media and Islamic Revival
264		1	_aNew York: _bCambridge University Press, _c2020
300			_a211 p., _c24 cm
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 1. Mind Before Matter: Visions of Religious Change in Post-Colonial Egypt -- 2. Currents of Religious Change: Ideological Transmission and Local Mobilization -- 3. Could the State Serve Islam?: The Rise of Fall of Islamist Educational Reform -- 4. Prayer and the Islamic Revival: A Timely Challenge -- 5. Beyond Fitna: The Emergence of Islamic Norms of Comportment -- 6. The Ambiguous Legacy of the Islamic Revival: How Women Emerged as a Barometer of Public Morality -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aIslamism _zEgypt _y1970s
650		0	_aIslam and politics _zEgypt _y1970s
650		0	_aPrint media _zEgypt _xIslamic revival _y1970s
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