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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2016, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-54 |
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Sufism
public Islam
modernity
mass media
television series
contemporary Egypt
middle class
Ramadan
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