Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies)

378 Pages·1998·1.71 MB·English

by  Gregory Starrett

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title : Putting Islam to Work : Education, Politics, and Religious
Transformation in Egypt Comparative Studies On Muslim
Societies ; 25
author : Starrett, Gregory.
publisher : University of California Press
isbn10 | asin : 0520209273
print isbn13 : 9780520209275
ebook isbn13 : 9780585130750
language : English
subject Islam--Egypt.
publication date : 1998
lcc : BP64.E3S73 1998eb
ddc : 306.6/0962
subject : Islam--Egypt.
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Putting Islam to Work

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COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON MUSLIM SOCIETIES
General Editor, Barbara D. Metcalf
1. Islam and the Political Economy of Meaning, edited by William R. Roff
2. Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution, by John Davis
3. Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and Its Medieval Background, by Yohanan Friedmann
4. Shari'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam, edited by Katherine P. Ewing
5. Islam, Politics, and Social Movements, edited by Edmund Burke, III, and Ira M. Lapidus
6. Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 17221859, by J. R. I. Cole
7. Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan, by David Gilmartin
8. Islam and the Russian Empire: Reform and Revolution in Central Asia, by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
9. Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination, edited by Dale F. Eickelman and James
Piscatori
10. The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey, edited by Raymond Lifchez
11. The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society, by Carol Delaney
12. Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs, by Zeynep Çelik
13. Arab Voices: The Human Rights Debate in the Middle East, by Kevin Dwyer
14. Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France in 18451846, The Voyage of Muhammad as-
Saffar, translated and edited by Susan Gilson Miller
15. Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town, by Robert Launay
16. The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society, by Brinkley Messick
17. The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 12041760, by Richard Eaton
18. Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 18001904), by Julia
A. Clancy-Smith

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19. The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama 'at-i Islami of Pakistan, by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
20. The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, by Patrick D. Gaffney
21. Heroes of the Age: Moral Faultlines on the Afghan Frontier, by David B. Edwards
22. Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe, edited by Barbara D. Metcalf
23. Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan, by Andrew
Shryock
24. Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo, by Homa Hoodfar
25. Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt, by Gregory Starrett

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Putting Islam to Work
Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt
Gregory Starrett
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley / Los Angeles / London

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University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press,
Ltd.
London, England
© 1998 by the Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Starrett, Gregory, 1961.
Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious
transformation in Egypt bGregory Starrett.
p. cm. (Comparative studies on Muslim societies; 25)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-520-20926-5 (cloth:
alk. paper).ISBN 0-520-20927-3 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. IslamEgypt. I. Title. II. Series.
BP64.E3S73 1998
306.6'0962dc21
96-50454
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information
Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

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For my parents

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CONTENTS
Preface xi
Part I
1 Creating an Object 3
Part II
2 Education and the Management of Populations 23
3 The Progressive Policy of the Government 62
Part III
4 Learning about God 89
5 The Path of Clarification 126
6 Growing Up: Four Stories 154

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Part IV
7 State of Emergency 191
8 Broken Boundaries and the Politics of Fear 220
Notes 249
Bibliography 287
Index 303

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PREFACE
In the chapter on "character" in his classic Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, first published in 1836,
Edward Lane included a note on "religious pride" as one of "the leading features of [Egyptian] character.'' ''I am
credibly informed," he wrote, "that children in Egypt are often taught, at school, a regular set of curses to denounce
upon the persons and property of Christians, Jews, and all other unbelievers in the religion of Mohammad." 1 Nothing
that these curses were recited daily in some of Cairo's government schools (but not those held in mosques), he quoted
from an Arabic transcription given to him by his friend Richard Burton:
O God, destroy the infidels and polytheists, thine enemies, the enemies of the religion. O God, make their
children orphans, and defile their abodes, and cause their feet to slip, and give them and their families and
their households and their women and their children and their relations by marriage and their brothers and
their friends and their possessions and their race and their wealth and their lands as booty to the Muslims.2
Lane went to some trouble to deny that these maledictions represented a universal Egyptian sentiment toward
Europeans. He implied instead that the Turkish overlords of the country bore responsibility for the reproduction of this
traditional curse within the officially sanctioned arena of the school, which, as part of the governmental framework of
the country, might be one of the factors that "altered, in a remarkable degree," the innate characteristics of the
Egyptians, "gradually lessen[ing] their mental energy," and dulling the ready apprehension, wit, and memory that
Egyptians possessed when young.3

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