In the Shade of the Sunna

Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East

Aaron Rock-Singer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38257-2 (ISBN)

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Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practices—praying in shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and observing gender segregation—are understood to have a similarly ancient pedigree. In this book, however, Aaron Rock-Singer draws from a range of media forms as well as traditional religious texts to demonstrate that Salafism is a creation of the twentieth century and that its signature practices emerged primarily out of Salafis’ competition with other social movements amid the intellectual and social upheavals of modernity. In the Shade of the Sunna thus takes readers beyond the surface claims of Salafism’s own proponents—and the academics who often repeat them—into the larger sociocultural and intellectual forces that have shaped Islam’s fastest growing revivalist movement.

Aaron Rock-Singer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and author of Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media and Islamic Revival.

Contents

Acknowledgments
The Ethics of an Orphan Image
A Note on Transliteration and Spelling

Introduction
1. The Roots of Salafism: Strands of an Unorthodox Past, 1926–1970
2. Conquering Custom in the Name of Tawhid: The Salafi Expansion of Worship
3. Praying in Shoes: How to Sideline a Practice of the Prophet
4. The Salafi Mystique: From Fitna to Gender Segregation
5. Leading With a Fist: The Genesis and Consolidation of a Salafi Beard
6. Between Pants and the Jallabiyya: The Adoption of Isbal and the Battle for Authenticity

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	1 b-w illustration
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38257-9 / 0520382579
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38257-2 / 9780520382572
Zustand	Neuware