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" Building life: Faith, literacy development and Muslim citizenship in revolutionary Egypt "
Nermeen Mouftah
Mittermaier, Amira
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804241
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TL49063
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1846516402; 10168171
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| Main Entry
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Esmaeeli, Hasan
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Building life: Faith, literacy development and Muslim citizenship in revolutionary Egypt\ Nermeen MouftahMittermaier, Amira
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University of Toronto (Canada)
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2014
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Ph.D.
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Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
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2014
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318
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Committee members: Cody, Francis; Lambek, Michael; Saleh, Walid; Winegar, Jessica
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-22460-3
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| Abstract
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Days after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the NGO Life Makers announced the launch of Knowledge Is Power, a campaign to eradicate illiteracy in Egypt. Led by one of the country's most prominent Muslim preachers, Amr Khaled, Life Makers calls on 'faith development' (<i>tanmiyya bi-l-iman</i>) for a revolutionary literacy movement that sets out to fundamentally reshape religio-political subjectivities in order to build the new Egypt. Based on sixteen months of fieldwork in Cairo, Egypt (June 2011-August 2012, and April-May 2013), this study uncovers how Islamic notions of knowledge and the foundational injunction to read (the first words revealed of the Quran are believed to be 'Read in the name of your Lord') inform what I call Islamic literacy development. I examine how the campaign is conceptualized and mobilized from above, and interrogate the politics and ethics of how it unfolds on the ground. The ethnography pivots between campaign volunteers' ethic of action on the one hand, and on the other, the implementation of the campaign in two sites: among mothers in a slum of Old Cairo, and workers at a shipyard in an industrial zone. This dissertation reaches across the anthropology of Islam and development to understand how conceptions and practices of faith and nationhood are cultivated and disputed. One of the political effects of the campaign is the mobilization of and contestation over what I call Muslim citizenship. Life Makers fosters Muslim citizenship as a way of being and political relation in revolutionary Egypt. They maintain that the country will progress only when its people look within and turn towards God. Knowledge Is Power is therefore an Islamic-civic project of self-making that makes literacy a virtuous practice to cultivate a specifically Islamic form of modern citizenship.
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Religion; Cultural anthropology; Islamic Studies; Literacy; Reading instruction; Middle Eastern Studies
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Education;Citizenship;Development;Egypt;Islam;Literacy;Religion
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Mittermaier, Amira
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Near and Middle Eastern CivilizationsUniversity of Toronto (Canada)
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