Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Islamist Rhetoric

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Date: 18 Oct 2010
From: Jacob Høigilt <jacobhoigilt at gmail.com>
Subject: New Book:Islamist Rhetoric

Dear colleagues, 
Routledge has just published my monograph Islamist Rhetoric: Language and culture in contemporary Egypt. This book combines functional grammar (in the Halliday tradition) with sociology and rhetorical theory in order to analyze the rhetoric of prominent Islamist intellectuals in Egypt. Here is a short summary of the book, and the link to Routledge. I hope it may be of use to some of you. If anyone has queries about the book, I would be happy to answer your questions: mail to jah at fafo.no.

"Islamism in Egypt is more diversified in terms of its sociology and ideology than is usually assumed. Through linguistic analysis of Islamist rhetoric, this book sheds light upon attitudes towards other Muslims, religious authority and secular society.
Examining the rhetoric of three central Islamist figures in Egypt today - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Amr Khalid and Muhammad Imara - the author investigates the connection between Islamist rhetoric and the social and political structures of the Islamic field in Egypt. Highlighting the diversity of Islamist rhetoric, the author argues that differences of form disclose sociological and ideological tensions. Grounded in Systemic Functional Grammar, the book explores three linguistic areas in detail: pronoun use, mood choices and configurations of processes and participants. The author explores how the writers relate to their readers and how they construe concepts that are central in the current Islamic revival, such as ‘Islamic thought’, ‘Muslims’, and ‘the West’.

Introducing an alternative divide in Egyptian public debate - between text cultures rather than ideologies - this book approaches the topic of Islamism from a unique analytical perspective, offering an important addition to the existing literature in the areas of Middle Eastern society and politics, Arabic language and religious studies."

http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415574402/

Best regards,

Jacob Høigilt

Middle East researcher

Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies,Oslo

jah at fafo.no


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