Read in the Name of Your Lord: Islamic Literacy Development in Revolutionary Egypt - Couverture souple

Mouftah, Nermeen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253071046 ISBN 13 : 9780253071040

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Egypt's January 2011 uprising spurred millions to action with a cacophony of demands-including the call to address Egypt's education crisis and adult literacy rates.

Read in the Name of Your Lord traces the push for universal literacy as a project caught between revolutionary activism and Islamic reformism in post-Mubarak Egypt. Despite their many disagreements, religious reformers, revolutionaries, and state actors converged on literacy as the first step toward realizing aspirations of the revolution. They invoked the verse Muslims believe was the first to be revealed, "Read in the name of your Lord," to teach literacy as a religious duty and the foundation for the country's future. Nermeen Mouftah unravels how this religiously inspired push for universal literacy was born of twenty-first-century scripturalism and simultaneously went beyond the Quran, to make reading and writing virtuous acts of the liberal state. While revolutionary literacy campaigns soon vanished and adult literacy rates remained stubbornly low, their efforts revealed the importance of recognizing alternative modes of text processing and the personhood and knowledge of nonliterate people.

Read in the Name of Your Lord demonstrates how the rise in modern scripturalism underpinned literacy activism, blurring the binary between secular and religious knowledge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nermeen Mouftah is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253071046
• ISBN 13: 9780253071040
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
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