Islamic knowledge and the making of modern Egypt
- Submitting institution
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University of Sussex
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 313500_90722
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108423472
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a conceptually and temporally ambitious book which uses social theory to transform understandings of modern Egyptian national culture. Beginning as a doctoral thesis, it was further supported by a postdoctoral fellowship at New College, Oxford. It is based on Egyptian and British records related to civil schools and education, publications by Egyptian education experts, and memoirs and travelogues. By establishing a 130-year history for tensions over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spaces, Kalmbach demonstrates the importance of Arabic and Islamic knowledge to notions of authority, belonging, and authenticity within a modernising Muslim-majority community.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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