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Telling a new story of modern Egypt, Mohammad Salama uses textual and cinematic sources to construct a clear and accessible narrative of the dynamics of Islam and culture in the first half of the twentieth century. The conflict between tradition and secular values in modern Egypt is shown in a stimulating and challenging new light as Salama bridges analysis of nationalism and its connection to Islamism, and outlines the effects of secular education versus traditional Islamic teaching on varied elements of Egyptian society. These include cultural production, politics, economic, identity, and gender relations. All of this helps to discern the harbingers that led to Egypt's social transition from the monarchy to the republic and opens the possibility of Islam as an inspiring and inspirational force. This illuminating, provocative and informative study will be of use to anyone interested in the period, whether general readers, students, or researchers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Imprints Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Preface
- Introduction: Prelude, Considerations, and Definitions
- 1 History Matters
- 2 Nahḍa-t Miṣr: Zaynab and the Cultural Renaissance of Modern Egypt (1912–1913)
- 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 The 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 The Red Revolutionary and the Dismantling of the Secular
- 7 Secular 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 1927–1962
- Bibliography
- Index