'Ulama', Politics, and the Public Sphere: An Egyptian Perspective

✍ Scribed by Meir Hatina

Publisher: University of Utah Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Series: Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Stud
Edition: 1st Edition
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The status of the Sunni Ulama (religious scholars) in modern times has attracted renewed academic interest, in light of their assertiveness regarding moral and sociopolitical issues on the Arab-Muslim agenda. This has led to a reassessment of the narrative of historians and social scientists, who usually depicted the Ulama as marginal players in comparison with the new lay Islamists, and certainly with the Shia Ulama. The Sunni 'Ulama'’s vitality is undoubtedly related to the continuing Islamic resurgence, which since the 1970s has forced the political elites to rely increasingly on the religious establishment in order to neutralize the Islamist challenge, thus allowing the Ulama greater freedom of activity. Hatina’s study returns to an earlier period and shows that such vitality has its roots in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Hatina traces the diverse Ulama reactions to this period of accelerated state building and national cohesion.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
A Note on Transliteration......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction - Ulama and Modernity: A Reappraisal
......Page 14
Part One: The Ulama of Egypt
......Page 28
1. A Historical Sketch......Page 30
2. Modernization and Protest......Page 41
Part Two: Azharis and the Urabi revolt,1881–1882
......Page 54
3. Islam and Dissidence......Page 56
4. In Defense of Religion and Homeland
......Page 76
5. Exile as a Prism for Cultural Interaction
......Page 93
Part Three: Confronting a Changing World
......Page 106
6. Debating Islam......Page 108
7. Al-Azhar and the Egyptian Nation-State......Page 144
8. Ulama in the Middle East: A Comparative Perspective
......Page 169
9. Conclusion......Page 184
Notes......Page 190
Bibliography......Page 228
Index......Page 252

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