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The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt

Cairo's Urban Reshaping

By: Mona Abaza

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The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt

Cairo's Urban Reshaping

By: Mona Abaza

In a collage of images the author attempts to convey the transformation of consumer culture and how it is related to the urban reshaping of the city of Cairo to meet with the demands of globalisation. Evidently Cairo ́s urban reshaping is taking place by pushing away the unwanted slums residents, which constitute the majority of the city ́s population.

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BRILL

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9047410475

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9789047410478

The Cotton Plantation Remembered

An Egyptian Family Story

By: Mona Abaza

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The Cotton Plantation Remembered

An Egyptian Family Story

By: Mona Abaza

Cotton made the fortune of the Fuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes well beyond the family photo album to become an attempt to convey how cotton, as the main catalyst and creator of wealth, produced by the beginning of the twentieth century two entirely separate worlds: one privileged and free, the other surviving at a level of bare subsistence, and indentured. The construction of lavish mansions in the Nile Delta countryside and the landowners' adoption of European lifestyles are juxtaposed visually with the former laborers' camp of the permanent workers, which became a village ('Izba), and then an urbanized settlement. The story is retold from the perspective of both the landowners and the former workers who were tied to the 'Izba. The book includes family photo albums, photographs of political campaigns and of banquets in the countryside, documents and accounting books, modern portraits of the peasants, and pictures of daily life in the village today. This is a story that fuses the personal and emotional with the scholar's detached ethnographic reporting-a truly fascinating, informative, and colorful view of life on both sides of a uniquely Egyptian socio-economic institution, and a vanished world: the cotton estate.

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American University in Cairo Press

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1617973696

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9781617973697

Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Shifting Worlds

By: Mona Abaza

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Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Shifting Worlds

By: Mona Abaza

This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the process of the production of 'knowledge' through the example of the modern 'Islamization of knowledge debate' and local empirical variations.

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319

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Routledge

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1136126104

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9781136126109

Cairo collages

Everyday life practices after the event

By: Mona Abaza

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Cairo collages

Everyday life practices after the event

By: Mona Abaza

With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo’s grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi.

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Manchester University Press

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1526145138

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9781526145130

Building a House in Heaven

Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt

By: Mona Atia

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Building a House in Heaven

Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt

By: Mona Atia

Charity is an economic act. This premise underlies a societal transformation—the merging of religious and capitalist impulses that Mona Atia calls “pious neoliberalism.” Though the phenomenon spans religious lines, Atia makes the connection between Islam and capitalism to examine the surprising relations between charity and the economy, the state, and religion in the transition from Mubarak-era Egypt. Mapping the landscape of charity and development in Egypt, Building a House in Heaven reveals the factors that changed the nature of Egyptian charitable practices—the state’s intervention in social care and religion, an Islamic revival, intensified economic pressures on the poor, and the subsequent emergence of the private sector as a critical actor in development. She shows how, when individuals from Egypt’s private sector felt it necessary to address poverty, they sought to make Islamic charities work as engines of development, a practice that changed the function of charity from distributing goods to empowering the poor. Drawing on interviews with key players, Atia explores the geography of Islamic charities through multiple neighborhoods, ideologies, sources of funding, projects, and wide social networks. Her work shifts between absorbing ethnographic stories of specific organizations and reflections on the patterns that appear across the sector. An enlightening look at the simultaneous neoliberalization of Islamic charity work and Islamization of neoliberal development, the book also offers an insightful analysis of the political and socioeconomic movements leading up to the uprisings that ended Mubarak’s rule and that amplified the importance of not only the Muslim Brotherhood but also the broader forces of Islamic piety and charity.

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200

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452939837

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9781452939834

Longing for the Lost Caliphate

A Transregional History

By: Mona Hassan

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Longing for the Lost Caliphate

A Transregional History

By: Mona Hassan

In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims around the world through the analytical lens of two key moments of loss in the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. Through extensive primary-source research, Mona Hassan explores the rich constellation of interpretations created by religious scholars, historians, musicians, statesmen, poets, and intellectuals. Hassan fills a scholarly gap regarding Muslim reactions to the destruction of the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad in 1258 and challenges the notion that the Mongol onslaught signaled an end to the critical engagement of Muslim jurists and intellectuals with the idea of an Islamic caliphate. She also situates Muslim responses to the dramatic abolition of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 as part of a longer trajectory of transregional cultural memory, revealing commonalities and differences in how modern Muslims have creatively interpreted and reinterpreted their heritage. Hassan examines how poignant memories of the lost caliphate have been evoked in Muslim culture, law, and politics, similar to the losses and repercussions experienced by other religious communities, including the destruction of the Second Temple for Jews and the fall of Rome for Christians. A global history, Longing for the Lost Caliphate delves into why the caliphate has been so important to Muslims in vastly different eras and places.

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Princeton University Press

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0691183376

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9780691183374

Leisurely Islam

Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut

By: Lara Deeb,Mona Harb

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Leisurely Islam

Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut

By: Lara Deeb,Mona Harb

How the rise of leisure is changing contemporary Lebanon South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching for places to hang out, to the Hezbollah officials who want this media-savvy generation to be more politically involved, to the religious leaders worried that Lebanese youth are losing their moral compasses, Leisurely Islam provides a sophisticated and original look at leisure in the Lebanese capital. What makes a café morally appropriate? How do people negotiate morality in relation to different places? And under what circumstances might a pious Muslim go to a café that serves alcohol? Lara Deeb and Mona Harb highlight tensions and complexities exacerbated by the presence of multiple religious authorities, a fraught sectarian political context, class mobility, and a generation that takes religion for granted but wants to have fun. The authors elucidate the political, economic, religious, and social changes that have taken place since 2000, and examine leisure's influence on Lebanese sociopolitical and urban situations. Asserting that morality and geography cannot be fully understood in isolation from one another, Leisurely Islam offers a colorful new understanding of the most powerful community in Lebanon today.

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305

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Princeton University Press

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1400848563

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9781400848560

A Reflexive Reading of Urban Space

By: Mona A. Abdelwahab

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A Reflexive Reading of Urban Space

By: Mona A. Abdelwahab

Providing a critique of the concepts attached to the representation of urban space, this ground-breaking book formulates a new theory of space, which understands the dynamic interrelations between physical and social spaces while tracing the wider urban context. It offers a new tool to approach the reading of these interrelations through reflexive reading strategies that identify singular reading fragments of the different spaces through multiple reader-time-space relations. The strategies proposed in the volume seek to develop an integrative reading of urban space through recognition of the singular (influenced by discourse, institution, etc.); and temporal (influenced by reading perspective in space and time), thereby providing a relational perspective that goes beyond the paradox of place in between social and physical space, identifying each in terms of relationships oscillating between the conceptual, the physical and social content, and the context. In conclusion, the book suggests that space/place can be read through sequential fragments of people, place, context, mind, and author/reader. Operating at different scales between conceptual space and reality, the sequential reading helps the recognition of multiplicity and the dynamics of place as a transformational process without hierarchy or classification.

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260

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Routledge

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1317186966

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Changing Images of Three Generations of Azharites in Indonesia

By: Mona Abaza

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Changing Images of Three Generations of Azharites in Indonesia

By: Mona Abaza

The focus will be on three different generations of Indonesian scholars and 'Ulama who have studied in Cairo, and in Al-Azhar in particular. Three different periods will be discussed: the colonial times when Islamic Reformism had a great impact and reactivated scholarship in the Middle East and the world of Southeast Asia; the immediate post-colonial period when Azharites played a paramount role in state functions; and the seventies and eighties when Islam was affirmed by the wealth of oil-producing countries in the Arab Gulf.

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Institute of Southeast Asian

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9813016469

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The Cotton Plantation Remembered

An Egyptian Family Story

By: Mona Abaza

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An Egyptian Family Story

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American University in Cairo Press

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Changing Images of Three Generations of Azharites in Indonesia

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Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Shifting Worlds

By: Mona Abaza

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Shifting Worlds

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Twentieth-century Egyptian Art

The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei

By: Mona Abaza

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Twentieth-century Egyptian Art

The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei

By: Mona Abaza

The private collection of a prominent Egyptian art gallery owner. Egypt's modern art scene has been marked by many influential local and foreign painters. Mona Abaza retraces the highlights of the country's twentieth-century art world through the private collection of one of Cairo's most reputable private gallery owners, Sherwet Shafei. The 200 color reproductions of paintings from Sherwet Shafei's collection represent works from very early pioneers such as Mahmoud Saï¿½d and Ragheb Ayad to later figures such as Hamed Nada and Youssef Sida. In a comprehensive introduction that examines the life and career of Sherwet Shafei and her pivotal role in promoting and creating a market for modern Egyptian art, the author also addresses the tendencies of emerging art collectors in Egypt's "blossoming" market, the burdens of forgery, and the impact of globalization on the art industry. This book serves as a repository of Egyptian cultural heritage by offering a rare viewing of a valuable collection that has yet to be displayed in its entirety.

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Amer Univ in Cairo Press

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977416394X

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9789774163944

The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt

Cairo's Urban Reshaping

By: Mona Abaza

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The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt

Cairo's Urban Reshaping

By: Mona Abaza

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Cairo collages

Everyday life practices after the event

By: Mona Abaza

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Everyday life practices after the event

By: Mona Abaza

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The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt

The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt

The Cotton Plantation Remembered

The Cotton Plantation Remembered

Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Cairo collages

Cairo collages

Building a House in Heaven

Building a House in Heaven

Longing for the Lost Caliphate

Longing for the Lost Caliphate

Leisurely Islam

Leisurely Islam

A Reflexive Reading of Urban Space

A Reflexive Reading of Urban Space

Changing Images of Three Generations of Azharites in Indonesia

Changing Images of Three Generations of Azharites in Indonesia

The Cotton Plantation Remembered

The Cotton Plantation Remembered

Changing Images of Three Generations of Azharites in Indonesia

Changing Images of Three Generations of Azharites in Indonesia

Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Twentieth-century Egyptian Art

Twentieth-century Egyptian Art

The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt

The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt

Cairo collages

Cairo collages

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