Read in the Name of Your Lord by Nermeen Mouftah
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Read in the Name of Your Lord

Read in the Name of Your Lord


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Egypt's January 2011 uprising spurred millions to action with a cacophony of demands--including the call to address Egypt's education crisis (azmat al-talim) 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 the new infrastructures of literacy reform soon vanished and adult literacy rates stagnated by 2017, these 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.


About the Author:

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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253071033
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Islamic Literacy Development in Revolutionary Egypt
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0253071038
  • Publisher Date: 05 Nov 2024
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 580 gr


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