The Making of Modern Egypt: The Egyptian Ulama as Custodians of Change and Guardians of Muslim Culture
[Thesis]
Marai Boauod
Robson, Laura
Portland State University
2016
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Committee members: Benstead, Lindsay; Grehan, James; Walton, Linda
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-12397-5
M.A.
History
Portland State University
2016
Scholarship on the modern history of the Middle East has undergone profound revision in the previous three decades or so. Many earlier perceptions, largely based on modernization theory, have been either contested or modified. However, the perception of the Egyptian ulama (the traditionally-educated, religious Muslim scholars) in academic scholarship remains largely affected by the legacy of hypotheses of the modernization theory. Old assumptions that the Egyptian ulama were submissive to political power and passive players incapable of accommodating, let alone of fathoming, conditions of the modern world, and who chose or were forced to retreat from this world, losing much, if not all, of their relevance and significance, still infuse the scholarly literature.
Cultural anthropology; Middle Eastern history; Middle Eastern Studies; Political science; Social structure
Social sciences;Culture;Custodians;Egypt;Egyptian;Guardians;Modern;Muslim;Ulama