Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies) PDF
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cover cover next page > title : Putting Islam to Work : Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt Comparative Studies On Muslim Societies ; 25 author : Starrett, Gregory. publisher : University of California Press isbn10 | asin : 0520209273 print isbn13 : 9780520209275 ebook isbn13 : 9780585130750 language : English subject Islam--Egypt. publication date : 1998 lcc : BP64.E3S73 1998eb ddc : 306.6/0962 subject : Islam--Egypt. cover next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin/Desktop/yüklen...20Religious%20Transformation%20in%20Egypt/files/cover.html31.01.2011 18:11:27 page_i < previous page page_i next page > Page i Putting Islam to Work < previous page page_i next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin/Desktop/yüklene...20Religious%20Transformation%20in%20Egypt/files/page_i.html31.01.2011 18:11:27 page_ii < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON MUSLIM SOCIETIES General Editor, Barbara D. Metcalf 1. Islam and the Political Economy of Meaning, edited by William R. Roff 2. Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution, by John Davis 3. Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and Its Medieval Background, by Yohanan Friedmann 4. Shari'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam, edited by Katherine P. Ewing 5. Islam, Politics, and Social Movements, edited by Edmund Burke, III, and Ira M. Lapidus 6. Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 17221859, by J. R. I. Cole 7. Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan, by David Gilmartin 8. Islam and the Russian Empire: Reform and Revolution in Central Asia, by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse 9. Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination, edited by Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori 10. The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey, edited by Raymond Lifchez 11. The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society, by Carol Delaney 12. Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs, by Zeynep Çelik 13. Arab Voices: The Human Rights Debate in the Middle East, by Kevin Dwyer 14. Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France in 18451846, The Voyage of Muhammad as- Saffar, translated and edited by Susan Gilson Miller 15. Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town, by Robert Launay 16. The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society, by Brinkley Messick 17. The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 12041760, by Richard Eaton 18. Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 18001904), by Julia A. Clancy-Smith < previous page page_ii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin/Desktop/yüklene...0Religious%20Transformation%20in%20Egypt/files/page_ii.html31.01.2011 18:11:28 page_iii < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii 19. The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama 'at-i Islami of Pakistan, by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr 20. The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, by Patrick D. Gaffney 21. Heroes of the Age: Moral Faultlines on the Afghan Frontier, by David B. Edwards 22. Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe, edited by Barbara D. Metcalf 23. Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan, by Andrew Shryock 24. Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo, by Homa Hoodfar 25. Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt, by Gregory Starrett < previous page page_iii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin/Desktop/yüklene...Religious%20Transformation%20in%20Egypt/files/page_iii.html31.01.2011 18:11:28 page_v < previous page page_v next page > Page v Putting Islam to Work Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt Gregory Starrett UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley / Los Angeles / London < previous page page_v next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin/Desktop/yüklen...0Religious%20Transformation%20in%20Egypt/files/page_v.html31.01.2011 18:11:28 page_vi < previous page page_vi next page > Page vi University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 1998 by the Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Starrett, Gregory, 1961. Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious transformation in Egypt bGregory Starrett. p. cm. (Comparative studies on Muslim societies; 25) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-520-20926-5 (cloth: alk. paper).ISBN 0-520-20927-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. IslamEgypt. I. Title. II. Series. BP64.E3S73 1998 306.6'0962dc21 96-50454 Manufactured in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. < previous page page_vi next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin/Desktop/yüklene...0Religious%20Transformation%20in%20Egypt/files/page_vi.html31.01.2011 18:11:29 page_vii < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii For my parents < previous page page_vii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin/Desktop/yüklene...Religious%20Transformation%20in%20Egypt/files/page_vii.html31.01.2011 18:11:29 page_ix < previous page page_ix next page > Page ix CONTENTS Preface xi Part I 1 Creating an Object 3 Part II 2 Education and the Management of Populations 23 3 The Progressive Policy of the Government 62 Part III 4 Learning about God 89 5 The Path of Clarification 126 6 Growing Up: Four Stories 154 < previous page page_ix next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin/Desktop/yüklene...0Religious%20Transformation%20in%20Egypt/files/page_ix.html31.01.2011 18:11:29 page_x < previous page page_x next page > Page x Part IV 7 State of Emergency 191 8 Broken Boundaries and the Politics of Fear 220 Notes 249 Bibliography 287 Index 303 < previous page page_x next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin/Desktop/yüklen...0Religious%20Transformation%20in%20Egypt/files/page_x.html31.01.2011 18:11:29 page_xi < previous page page_xi next page > Page xi PREFACE In the chapter on "character" in his classic Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, first published in 1836, Edward Lane included a note on "religious pride" as one of "the leading features of [Egyptian] character.'' ''I am credibly informed," he wrote, "that children in Egypt are often taught, at school, a regular set of curses to denounce upon the persons and property of Christians, Jews, and all other unbelievers in the religion of Mohammad." 1 Nothing that these curses were recited daily in some of Cairo's government schools (but not those held in mosques), he quoted from an Arabic transcription given to him by his friend Richard Burton: O God, destroy the infidels and polytheists, thine enemies, the enemies of the religion. O God, make their children orphans, and defile their abodes, and cause their feet to slip, and give them and their families and their households and their women and their children and their relations by marriage and their brothers and their friends and their possessions and their race and their wealth and their lands as booty to the Muslims.2 Lane went to some trouble to deny that these maledictions represented a universal Egyptian sentiment toward Europeans. He implied instead that the Turkish overlords of the country bore responsibility for the reproduction of this traditional curse within the officially sanctioned arena of the school, which, as part of the governmental framework of the country, might be one of the factors that "altered, in a remarkable degree," the innate characteristics of the Egyptians, "gradually lessen[ing] their mental energy," and dulling the ready apprehension, wit, and memory that Egyptians possessed when young.3 < previous page page_xi next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin/Desktop/yüklene...0Religious%20Transformation%20in%20Egypt/files/page_xi.html31.01.2011 18:11:30
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