Yasmin Moll
Biographic Data
| ID | 84062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasmin Moll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasmin |
| FAMILY NAME | Moll |
| SIGNATURE | MOLL Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5179-8540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt
The New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help—came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an innovative and inclusive Islamic piety that millions of young middle-class viewers found radical and compelling—but were scorned as neoliberal by leftists, as stealth Islamists by s…
Afterword
How should we understand the complex and often contradictory role the other-and-more-than-human occupies in the lives and imaginations of people in the Middle East? Adopting a self-consciously post-secular stance on this question, the contributors of this special section convincingly show the theoretical and narrative possibilities of methodological attunement to the other-worldly and transcendent, to the divine. As I finished reading the section…
Visualizing erasure: Co‐creating comics and animation from revolutionary street art to Nubian memories of displacement in Egypt
This article discusses how Faye Ginsburg's work on Indigenous filmmaking and commitment to shared anthropology inspired us to pursue unconventional forms of visual anthropology adapted to our own ethnographic contexts in post‐revolutionary Egypt. Specifically, we discuss Hamdy's work on the collaborative graphic novel Lissa and Moll's collaborative animation short Hanina. The affordances of these illustrated genres and mediums for collaborative c…
Can there be a Godly ethnography? Islamic anthropology, epistemic decolonization, and the ethnographic stance
Can there be a Godly ethnography? This article explores how the epistemic entailments of this question trouble our taken-for-granted notions about what decolonizing anthropology demands. Disciplinary decolonization aims at more-just futures through interrogating Eurocentric ways of knowing and approaching marginalized histories and perspectives as good to think with, not merely about. I argue that far from being a radical challenge, such decoloni…
Televised Tears
The practice of feigning weeping in devotional contexts, including in hortatory preaching, is closely associated in Egypt with Islamic Revivalism. It is an expression of pious humility through which worshippers pretend to cry in order to (ideally) develop the embodied capacity to shed tears in the future. Secular Egyptians tend to dismiss such weeping as insincere, but so, too, do many participants in the piety movement in a specific context: on-…
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
The Idea of Islamic Media: The Qur'an and the Decolonization of Mass Communication
The emergence of Islamic television in the Arab Middle East is usually explained as part of a Saudi media empire fueled by neoliberal petro-dollars. This article, by contrast, takes seriously the role ideas played alongside changing political economies in the origins of the world’s first Islamic television channel, Iqraa. Focusing on the intellectual and institutional career of “Islamic media” ( al-i’lām al-Islāmī ) as a category from the late si…
Living through Thick Concepts in Revolutionary Egypt
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Television is Not Radio: Theologies of Mediation in the Egyptian Islamic Revival
What makes media "Islamic"? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Islamic television producers in Cairo, this article looks at the passionate contention within Egypt's piety movement over the development of new forms of religious media. I suggest that at stake in these mass-mediated debates over da'wa (Islamic outreach) are conflicting theologies of mediation that configure the boundaries of the religious and the secular differently. This God-ta…
Subtitling Islam: Translation, Mediation, Critique
Egyptian translators working at Iqraa-the world's first Islamic television channel-use a variety of strategies in subtitling Arabic-language preaching programs into English. These translators see their task as twofold: to act as "cultural mediators" responsible for countering perceived Western stereotypes about Muslims, on the one hand, and, on the other, to transmit as "preachers by proxy" correct and relevant religious knowledge to viewers when…
Divine cosmopolitanism: A reply
Storytelling, Sincerity, and Islamic Televangelism in Egypt
In 2001, the first episode of what was to become a hit show — Kalam min al-Qalb (Words from the Heart) — aired on a privately owned Egyptian satellite channel. Amr Khaled, at the time a relatively unknown da’iyia (‘caller to Islam’, pl. duah) who was also a practising accountant, was the host of the show. Interweaving Qur’anic stories of the prophets with the personal stories of ordinary Muslims struggling to be more pious, the show inaugurated w…
The Revolution Will Be Filmed
Islamic Televangelism: Religion, Media and Visuality in Contemporary Egypt
In the Egyptian hit film Awqaat Faraagh (Leisure Time, 2006), three young college students experience an existential crisis when one of their friends suddenly dies while crossing the street to buy them more beer. Sitting in a souped-up Mercedes Benz filled with hashish smoke and scantily clad girls, the three boys watch in horror as their friend, high and tripping, is hit by a car and immediately falls to the ground, breathing his last with the w…
Beyond Beards, Scarves and Halal Meat”: Mediated Constructions of British Muslim Identity
There is an emerging identity discourse among young British Muslims in the twenty-first century that strives to create a space for itself in the public sphere beyond both assimilation and isolation. Its articulators seek to affirm their Islamic identity within its Western context and through interaction with it, re(defining) and (re)constructing in the process what it means to be British as well as to be Muslim. An important way in which such red…
The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
Television is Not Radio: Theologies of Mediation in the Egyptian Islamic Revival
What makes media "Islamic"? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Islamic television producers in Cairo, this article looks at the passionate contention within Egypt's piety movement over the development of new forms of religious media. I suggest that at stake in these mass-mediated debates over da'wa (Islamic outreach) are conflicting theologies of mediation that configure the boundaries of the religious and the secular differently. This God-ta…
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Can there be a Godly ethnography? Islamic anthropology, epistemic decolonization, and the ethnographic stance
Can there be a Godly ethnography? This article explores how the epistemic entailments of this question trouble our taken-for-granted notions about what decolonizing anthropology demands. Disciplinary decolonization aims at more-just futures through interrogating Eurocentric ways of knowing and approaching marginalized histories and perspectives as good to think with, not merely about. I argue that far from being a radical challenge, such decoloni…
Subtitling Islam: Translation, Mediation, Critique
Egyptian translators working at Iqraa-the world's first Islamic television channel-use a variety of strategies in subtitling Arabic-language preaching programs into English. These translators see their task as twofold: to act as "cultural mediators" responsible for countering perceived Western stereotypes about Muslims, on the one hand, and, on the other, to transmit as "preachers by proxy" correct and relevant religious knowledge to viewers when…
Televised Tears
The practice of feigning weeping in devotional contexts, including in hortatory preaching, is closely associated in Egypt with Islamic Revivalism. It is an expression of pious humility through which worshippers pretend to cry in order to (ideally) develop the embodied capacity to shed tears in the future. Secular Egyptians tend to dismiss such weeping as insincere, but so, too, do many participants in the piety movement in a specific context: on-…
Beyond Beards, Scarves and Halal Meat”: Mediated Constructions of British Muslim Identity
There is an emerging identity discourse among young British Muslims in the twenty-first century that strives to create a space for itself in the public sphere beyond both assimilation and isolation. Its articulators seek to affirm their Islamic identity within its Western context and through interaction with it, re(defining) and (re)constructing in the process what it means to be British as well as to be Muslim. An important way in which such red…
Living through Thick Concepts in Revolutionary Egypt
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Visualizing erasure: Co‐creating comics and animation from revolutionary street art to Nubian memories of displacement in Egypt
This article discusses how Faye Ginsburg's work on Indigenous filmmaking and commitment to shared anthropology inspired us to pursue unconventional forms of visual anthropology adapted to our own ethnographic contexts in post‐revolutionary Egypt. Specifically, we discuss Hamdy's work on the collaborative graphic novel Lissa and Moll's collaborative animation short Hanina. The affordances of these illustrated genres and mediums for collaborative c…
The Idea of Islamic Media: The Qur'an and the Decolonization of Mass Communication
The emergence of Islamic television in the Arab Middle East is usually explained as part of a Saudi media empire fueled by neoliberal petro-dollars. This article, by contrast, takes seriously the role ideas played alongside changing political economies in the origins of the world’s first Islamic television channel, Iqraa. Focusing on the intellectual and institutional career of “Islamic media” ( al-i’lām al-Islāmī ) as a category from the late si…
Beyond Beards, Scarves and Halal Meat”: Mediated Constructions of British Muslim Identity
There is an emerging identity discourse among young British Muslims in the twenty-first century that strives to create a space for itself in the public sphere beyond both assimilation and isolation. Its articulators seek to affirm their Islamic identity within its Western context and through interaction with it, re(defining) and (re)constructing in the process what it means to be British as well as to be Muslim. An important way in which such red…
The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
Islamic Televangelism: Religion, Media and Visuality in Contemporary Egypt
In the Egyptian hit film Awqaat Faraagh (Leisure Time, 2006), three young college students experience an existential crisis when one of their friends suddenly dies while crossing the street to buy them more beer. Sitting in a souped-up Mercedes Benz filled with hashish smoke and scantily clad girls, the three boys watch in horror as their friend, high and tripping, is hit by a car and immediately falls to the ground, breathing his last with the w…
Storytelling, Sincerity, and Islamic Televangelism in Egypt
In 2001, the first episode of what was to become a hit show — Kalam min al-Qalb (Words from the Heart) — aired on a privately owned Egyptian satellite channel. Amr Khaled, at the time a relatively unknown da’iyia (‘caller to Islam’, pl. duah) who was also a practising accountant, was the host of the show. Interweaving Qur’anic stories of the prophets with the personal stories of ordinary Muslims struggling to be more pious, the show inaugurated w…
The Revolution Will Be Filmed
Divine cosmopolitanism: A reply
Subtitling Islam: Translation, Mediation, Critique
Egyptian translators working at Iqraa-the world's first Islamic television channel-use a variety of strategies in subtitling Arabic-language preaching programs into English. These translators see their task as twofold: to act as "cultural mediators" responsible for countering perceived Western stereotypes about Muslims, on the one hand, and, on the other, to transmit as "preachers by proxy" correct and relevant religious knowledge to viewers when…
Television is Not Radio: Theologies of Mediation in the Egyptian Islamic Revival
What makes media "Islamic"? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Islamic television producers in Cairo, this article looks at the passionate contention within Egypt's piety movement over the development of new forms of religious media. I suggest that at stake in these mass-mediated debates over da'wa (Islamic outreach) are conflicting theologies of mediation that configure the boundaries of the religious and the secular differently. This God-ta…
The Idea of Islamic Media: The Qur'an and the Decolonization of Mass Communication
The emergence of Islamic television in the Arab Middle East is usually explained as part of a Saudi media empire fueled by neoliberal petro-dollars. This article, by contrast, takes seriously the role ideas played alongside changing political economies in the origins of the world’s first Islamic television channel, Iqraa. Focusing on the intellectual and institutional career of “Islamic media” ( al-i’lām al-Islāmī ) as a category from the late si…
Living through Thick Concepts in Revolutionary Egypt
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Televised Tears
The practice of feigning weeping in devotional contexts, including in hortatory preaching, is closely associated in Egypt with Islamic Revivalism. It is an expression of pious humility through which worshippers pretend to cry in order to (ideally) develop the embodied capacity to shed tears in the future. Secular Egyptians tend to dismiss such weeping as insincere, but so, too, do many participants in the piety movement in a specific context: on-…
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Can there be a Godly ethnography? Islamic anthropology, epistemic decolonization, and the ethnographic stance
Can there be a Godly ethnography? This article explores how the epistemic entailments of this question trouble our taken-for-granted notions about what decolonizing anthropology demands. Disciplinary decolonization aims at more-just futures through interrogating Eurocentric ways of knowing and approaching marginalized histories and perspectives as good to think with, not merely about. I argue that far from being a radical challenge, such decoloni…
Visualizing erasure: Co‐creating comics and animation from revolutionary street art to Nubian memories of displacement in Egypt
This article discusses how Faye Ginsburg's work on Indigenous filmmaking and commitment to shared anthropology inspired us to pursue unconventional forms of visual anthropology adapted to our own ethnographic contexts in post‐revolutionary Egypt. Specifically, we discuss Hamdy's work on the collaborative graphic novel Lissa and Moll's collaborative animation short Hanina. The affordances of these illustrated genres and mediums for collaborative c…
The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt
The New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help—came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an innovative and inclusive Islamic piety that millions of young middle-class viewers found radical and compelling—but were scorned as neoliberal by leftists, as stealth Islamists by s…
Afterword
How should we understand the complex and often contradictory role the other-and-more-than-human occupies in the lives and imaginations of people in the Middle East? Adopting a self-consciously post-secular stance on this question, the contributors of this special section convincingly show the theoretical and narrative possibilities of methodological attunement to the other-worldly and transcendent, to the divine. As I finished reading the section…
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