Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt

ISBN-13: 9781108423472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Hilary Kalmbach (University of Sussex)

Opis

For 130 years, tensions have raged over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modern Egypt. This history focuses on a pivotal yet understudied school, Dar al-Ulum, whose alumni became authoritative arbiters of how to be modern and authentic within a Muslim-majority community, including by founding the Muslim Brotherhood.

Recenzje

'Hilary Kalmbach illuminates a critical hybrid pathway to modernity between al-Azhar and the civil schools - the teacher's college of Dar al-Ulum. That future Muslim Brothers Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb studied there underlines its significance for understanding Islamic revival movements from the 1930s to the present, in Egypt and around the world.' Donald M. Reid, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Spis treści

Introduction. Hybridity, Islamic knowledge and 'being modern' in Egypt; 1. Reform, education, and sociocultural politics in nineteenth-century Egypt; 2. Dar al-ʿUlum: hybridity, education, and sociocultural change, 1871–1900; 3. Hybridity, Islamic knowledge, and the formation of Egyptian national culture, 1882–1922; 4. Fighting over the future of Egyptian national culture, 1923–1952; Conclusion. Authority, authenticity, and revolution.