Islam and the culture of modern Egypt from the monarchy to the republic /
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Imprints Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration and Translation; Preface; Introduction: Prelude, Considerations, and Definitions; Production of Violence: Reflections on an Un-mastered Past; Islam; Culture; Modernity; Modernism; 1 History Matters; 2 Nahḍa-t Miṣr: Zaynab and the Cultural Renaissance of Modern Egypt (1912-1913); 3 Blindness and Insight: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide in Ṭāhā Ḥusayn's The Days; 4 An Egyptian Sophocles: Qurʼānic Inspiration in Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm's The People of the Cave
- 5 Writing the Mad Text: Freedom, Modernity, and God in Naguib Mahfouz's "The Whisper of Madness"6 Islamism Writes Back: 'Alī Aḥmad Bākāthīr's The Red Revolutionary and the Dismantling of the Secular; 7 Secular Realism and Utopian Irony in Yūsuf Idrīs's Faraḥāt's Republic; 8 Islam and Secular Nationalism in a Film Age: Unveiling Youssef Chahine's Gamīla Al-Gazā'iriyya; Appendix 1
- The Whisper of Madness; Appendix 2
- An Interview with Youssef Chahine; Appendix 3
- Feature Films Produced in Egypt from 1927-1962; Bibliography; Index