[Linganth] Yasmin Moll's new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Yasmin Moll answers Sherine Hamdy's questions about her
book, *The Revolution Within.*

www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: The New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel
preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to
self-help—came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television
channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an
innovative and inclusive Islamic piety that millions of young middle-class
viewers found radical and compelling—but were scorned as neoliberal by
leftists, as stealth Islamists by secularists, and as too Westernized by
other Muslim preachers.


Drawing on long-term fieldwork with the New Preachers, their producers, and
followers in Cairo, Yasmin Moll shows how Islamic media and the social life
of theology mattered to contestations over the shape of a New Egypt. These
mass-mediated fractures within Islamic Revivalism were happening at a time
of both revolutionary possibility and authoritarian entrenchment. The New
Preachers' Islamic media inspired a "revolution within" that transcended
the country's divisions and anticipated the ethos of creativity,
solidarity, and coexistence that soon would mark Tahrir Square, the ethical
epicenter of the 2011 uprising. Vividly written and boldly theorized, The
Revolution Within challenges conventional accounts of the 2011 revolution
and its aftermath as a struggle between secular and religious forces,
reconsidering what makes a practice virtuous, a public Islamic, a way of
life Godly.
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