Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic

ISBN-13: 9781108417181 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 234 str.

Mohammad Salama

Opis

Examines the influence of Islam, as a religion, a practice, and a tradition, on Egypt's visual and literary modernity.

Recenzje

'His close readings of texts ... are often subltle and enlightening.' Raphael Cormack, Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Preface; A note on transliteration and translation; Introduction: prelude, considerations, and definitions; 1. History matters; 2. Nahḍa-t Miṣr: Zaynab and the cultural Renaissance of modern Egypt; 3. Blindness and insight: challenging the sacred/secular divide in Ṭāhā Ḥusayn's The Days; 4. An Egyptian Sophocles: Qurʾānic inspiration in Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm's People of the Cave; 5. Writing the mad text: freedom, modernity and God in Naguib Mahfouz's 'The Whisper of Madness'; 6. Islamism writes back: Alī Aḥmad Bākāthīr's Red Revolutionary and the dismantling of the secular; 7. Realism and utopian irony in Yūsuf Idrīs's Faraḥāt's Republic; 8. Islam and secular nationalism in a film age: unveiling Youssef Chahine's Gamīla al-Gazā'iriyya; Appendix 1: 'The Whisper of Madness'; Appendix 2: an interview with Youssef Chahine; Appendix 3: feature films produced in Egypt from 1927–62; Bibliography; Index.