University of Florida Homepage
Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt: Media, Intellectuals and Society

@ -

THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL ISLAMIC STUDIES, IN COOPERATION WITH THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN STUDIES PRESENTS:

DR. HATSUKI AISHIMA

“PUBLIC CULTURE AND ISLAM IN MODERN EGYPT:

MEDIA, INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIETY”

Tuesday, November 28th, 2017; 3:30PM

404 Grinter Hall

Abstract: Hatsuki Aishima explores what it means to be “cultured” and “middle class” for Egyptian Muslims, which, as a result of the Egyptian government’s neoliberal policies, is widely thought to be a shrinking sector of society. Through an analysis of media representations of ‘Abd al-Halim Mahmud (1910-78), the French-trained Sufi scholar and Grand Imam of Al-Azhar under president Anwar al-Sadat, she discusses the connection of Islam to these middle-class considerations and makes an original contribution to the debate on the commodification of religious teaching and knowledge.

Bio: Hatsuki Aishima is Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. She has taught at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Manchester. In addition to her book, Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt: Media, Intellectuals and Society (IB Tauris: 2016), her publications have appeared in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Die Welt des Islams, and Culture and Religion.