Between “Public” Islam and “Private” Sufism: Producing a National Icon through Mass Mediated Hagiography


To what extent can a national hero be a Sufi? This article examines the much contested yet still underexplored relationship between the public discourse of modernity and Sufism by looking at how television producers dealt with Sufi elements in ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Maḥmūd’s (1910–78) biography. The Egyptian...

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Main Author: Aishima, Hatsuki (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2016, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-54
Further subjects:B Sufism
 public Islam
 modernity
 mass media
 television series
 contemporary Egypt
 middle class
 Ramadan

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