Aaron Rock-Singer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 376460 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Aaron Rock-Singer |
| PRENOMES | Aaron |
| SOBRENOME | Rock-Singer |
| ASSINATURA | ROCK-SINGER A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6976-6587 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Twilight of the Saints
Media of the Masses
Journal Article Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. By Andrew Simon Get access Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. By Andrew Simon (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. xiii plus 279 pp. $30.00). Aaron Rock-Singer Aaron Rock-Singer Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, …
Sacralizing the Nation
In January 1935, Palestinian Islamic thinkers, in conversation with counterparts elsewhere in the Middle East and South Asia, concluded that those who sold or facilitated the sale of land to the Mandate Jewish community must be excommunicated. This article explores the emergence of such religious excommunication ( takfīr ) in Mandate Palestine between 1929 and 1935 based on a wide range of periodicals and pamphlets from this period. It argues tha…
On Salafism
Introduction
The Rise of Islamic Society
This article explores the history of 'Islamic Society' (al-Mujtamaʿ al-Islāmī), a concept whose widespread usage is paralleled by shallow understandings of its origins. Scholars of premodern Islamic history often use this term to describe the ideas and practices of Muslim communities under Islamic political rule, while historians of the Muslim Brotherhood highlight this leading Islamist movement's commitment to forming such a collective yet treat…
Islam and Politics
Practices of Piety
This article challenges the dominant organization-centered focus of the study of Islamic movements, and argues for a turn towards social practice. To do so, it traces the rise and spread of Egypt's leading Salafi movement, Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya (e. 1926) and its role in popularizing a series of distinct practices between 1940 and 1990. Based on the full run of this movement's magazine, al-Hadi al-Nabawi (the Prophetic Guide, 1936-66) and…
Practicing Islam in Egypt
Following the ideological disappointment of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, an Islamic revival arose in Egypt. Yet, far from a mechanical reaction to the decline of secular nationalism, this religious shift was the product of impassioned competition among Muslim Brothers, Salafis and state institutions and their varied efforts to mobilize Egyptians to their respective projects. By pulling together the linked stories of these diverse claimants to relig…
Leading with a Fist
Salafism is a global religious movement whose male participants often distinguish themselves from their co-religionists by a particular style of facial hair. Historians have focused largely on this movement’s engagement with questions of theology and politics, while anthropologists have assumed that Salafi practice reflects a longer Islamic tradition. In this article, I move beyond both approaches by tracing the gradual formation of a distinctly …
Reading the ads in al-Daʿwa magazine
This article probes the return of the Muslim Brotherhood to prominence in 1970s Egypt through a systematic analysis of advertisements in the organization’s flagship periodical, al-Daʿwa (The Call). In every issue of the magazine, which was published between June 1976 and October 1981, entreaties to proper conduct and appeals to Islamic solidarity appeared alongside advertisements for everything from Pepsi to breakfast biscuits to automobiles. We …
Soft Force
Under the rule of President Anwar al-Sadat (1970–81), Egyptians turned to Islam, and Muslim Brothers, Salafis, Azhari scholars, and state functionaries within the Ministry of Endowments sought to define and guide this shift. Since the 1970s, this piety has become the norm, rather than the exception, in Egyptian society as Egyptian men and women consume Islamic media, adhere to conservative social visions, and pray regularly. Yet, while women serv…
Inside the Muslim Brotherhood
Censoring the Kishkophone
How do states produce religion and how can the study of state censorship cast light on this phenomenon? This article examines the logic by which two Egyptian government bodies, the Ministry of Culture and the Islamic Research Academy, censored the sermons of a premier Islamist preacher, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Hamid Kishk (d. 1999), between 1987 and 1993. To do so, it draws on two distinct sets of sources: a sixteen-volume printed edition of Kishk's sermo…
The Salafi Mystique
In this article, I trace the emergence of gender segregation within contemporary Salafism, focusing on Egypt as a case study to examine the interaction between textual hermeneutics, ideological cross-pollination and political competition. Drawing on two Egyptian Salafi magazines, alongside a variety of pamphlets and lay-oriented works by Salafi and non-Salafi authors alike, I challenge a majority view that claims gender segregation as a long-esta…
Scholarly Authority and Lay Mobilization
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a propitious yet challenging time for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as its elites sought to define the movement's priorities in the face of new opportunities to spread their call ( da‘wa ). The debate over preaching, while one of strategic assessment, also involved a negotiation of intellectual hierarchy: Should laymen lead Egypt's oldest Islamist organization, or should scholars? In contrast to previous stu…
Prayer and the Islamic Revival
This article traces the emergence of the early afternoon ẓuhr prayer as a key project of subject formation during the second half of the Anwar al-Sadat period (1976-81). Drawing on three Islamic magazines of differing ideological orientation (Muslim Brotherhood-Islamist, Salafi-Islamist, and state-sponsored), all containing letters to the editor and fatwa requests, it charts contestation among religious elites and the reception of their programma…
A Pious Public
This article uses descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis of texts to examine the turn of middle class Egyptians to multiple religious projects during the early years (1976–1981) of the ‘Islamic Revival’ in Egypt. It draws on letters to the editor and fatwa requests of three Islamic magazines of differing ideological orientation (Brotherhood-Islamist, Salafi-Islamist and Statist) to produce a geographic and socioeconomic profile of the ‘p…
The Salafi Mystique
In this article, I trace the emergence of gender segregation within contemporary Salafism, focusing on Egypt as a case study to examine the interaction between textual hermeneutics, ideological cross-pollination and political competition. Drawing on two Egyptian Salafi magazines, alongside a variety of pamphlets and lay-oriented works by Salafi and non-Salafi authors alike, I challenge a majority view that claims gender segregation as a long-esta…
Leading with a Fist
Salafism is a global religious movement whose male participants often distinguish themselves from their co-religionists by a particular style of facial hair. Historians have focused largely on this movement’s engagement with questions of theology and politics, while anthropologists have assumed that Salafi practice reflects a longer Islamic tradition. In this article, I move beyond both approaches by tracing the gradual formation of a distinctly …
Practices of Piety
This article challenges the dominant organization-centered focus of the study of Islamic movements, and argues for a turn towards social practice. To do so, it traces the rise and spread of Egypt's leading Salafi movement, Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya (e. 1926) and its role in popularizing a series of distinct practices between 1940 and 1990. Based on the full run of this movement's magazine, al-Hadi al-Nabawi (the Prophetic Guide, 1936-66) and…
The Rise of Islamic Society
This article explores the history of 'Islamic Society' (al-Mujtamaʿ al-Islāmī), a concept whose widespread usage is paralleled by shallow understandings of its origins. Scholars of premodern Islamic history often use this term to describe the ideas and practices of Muslim communities under Islamic political rule, while historians of the Muslim Brotherhood highlight this leading Islamist movement's commitment to forming such a collective yet treat…
Censoring the Kishkophone
How do states produce religion and how can the study of state censorship cast light on this phenomenon? This article examines the logic by which two Egyptian government bodies, the Ministry of Culture and the Islamic Research Academy, censored the sermons of a premier Islamist preacher, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Hamid Kishk (d. 1999), between 1987 and 1993. To do so, it draws on two distinct sets of sources: a sixteen-volume printed edition of Kishk's sermo…
Scholarly Authority and Lay Mobilization
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a propitious yet challenging time for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as its elites sought to define the movement's priorities in the face of new opportunities to spread their call ( da‘wa ). The debate over preaching, while one of strategic assessment, also involved a negotiation of intellectual hierarchy: Should laymen lead Egypt's oldest Islamist organization, or should scholars? In contrast to previous stu…
A Pious Public
This article uses descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis of texts to examine the turn of middle class Egyptians to multiple religious projects during the early years (1976–1981) of the ‘Islamic Revival’ in Egypt. It draws on letters to the editor and fatwa requests of three Islamic magazines of differing ideological orientation (Brotherhood-Islamist, Salafi-Islamist and Statist) to produce a geographic and socioeconomic profile of the ‘p…
The Salafi Mystique
In this article, I trace the emergence of gender segregation within contemporary Salafism, focusing on Egypt as a case study to examine the interaction between textual hermeneutics, ideological cross-pollination and political competition. Drawing on two Egyptian Salafi magazines, alongside a variety of pamphlets and lay-oriented works by Salafi and non-Salafi authors alike, I challenge a majority view that claims gender segregation as a long-esta…
Scholarly Authority and Lay Mobilization
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a propitious yet challenging time for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as its elites sought to define the movement's priorities in the face of new opportunities to spread their call ( da‘wa ). The debate over preaching, while one of strategic assessment, also involved a negotiation of intellectual hierarchy: Should laymen lead Egypt's oldest Islamist organization, or should scholars? In contrast to previous stu…
Prayer and the Islamic Revival
This article traces the emergence of the early afternoon ẓuhr prayer as a key project of subject formation during the second half of the Anwar al-Sadat period (1976-81). Drawing on three Islamic magazines of differing ideological orientation (Muslim Brotherhood-Islamist, Salafi-Islamist, and state-sponsored), all containing letters to the editor and fatwa requests, it charts contestation among religious elites and the reception of their programma…
Soft Force
Under the rule of President Anwar al-Sadat (1970–81), Egyptians turned to Islam, and Muslim Brothers, Salafis, Azhari scholars, and state functionaries within the Ministry of Endowments sought to define and guide this shift. Since the 1970s, this piety has become the norm, rather than the exception, in Egyptian society as Egyptian men and women consume Islamic media, adhere to conservative social visions, and pray regularly. Yet, while women serv…
Inside the Muslim Brotherhood
Censoring the Kishkophone
How do states produce religion and how can the study of state censorship cast light on this phenomenon? This article examines the logic by which two Egyptian government bodies, the Ministry of Culture and the Islamic Research Academy, censored the sermons of a premier Islamist preacher, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Hamid Kishk (d. 1999), between 1987 and 1993. To do so, it draws on two distinct sets of sources: a sixteen-volume printed edition of Kishk's sermo…
Reading the ads in al-Daʿwa magazine
This article probes the return of the Muslim Brotherhood to prominence in 1970s Egypt through a systematic analysis of advertisements in the organization’s flagship periodical, al-Daʿwa (The Call). In every issue of the magazine, which was published between June 1976 and October 1981, entreaties to proper conduct and appeals to Islamic solidarity appeared alongside advertisements for everything from Pepsi to breakfast biscuits to automobiles. We …
Practicing Islam in Egypt
Following the ideological disappointment of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, an Islamic revival arose in Egypt. Yet, far from a mechanical reaction to the decline of secular nationalism, this religious shift was the product of impassioned competition among Muslim Brothers, Salafis and state institutions and their varied efforts to mobilize Egyptians to their respective projects. By pulling together the linked stories of these diverse claimants to relig…
Leading with a Fist
Salafism is a global religious movement whose male participants often distinguish themselves from their co-religionists by a particular style of facial hair. Historians have focused largely on this movement’s engagement with questions of theology and politics, while anthropologists have assumed that Salafi practice reflects a longer Islamic tradition. In this article, I move beyond both approaches by tracing the gradual formation of a distinctly …
Islam and Politics
Practices of Piety
This article challenges the dominant organization-centered focus of the study of Islamic movements, and argues for a turn towards social practice. To do so, it traces the rise and spread of Egypt's leading Salafi movement, Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya (e. 1926) and its role in popularizing a series of distinct practices between 1940 and 1990. Based on the full run of this movement's magazine, al-Hadi al-Nabawi (the Prophetic Guide, 1936-66) and…
Introduction
The Rise of Islamic Society
This article explores the history of 'Islamic Society' (al-Mujtamaʿ al-Islāmī), a concept whose widespread usage is paralleled by shallow understandings of its origins. Scholars of premodern Islamic history often use this term to describe the ideas and practices of Muslim communities under Islamic political rule, while historians of the Muslim Brotherhood highlight this leading Islamist movement's commitment to forming such a collective yet treat…
Media of the Masses
Journal Article Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. By Andrew Simon Get access Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. By Andrew Simon (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. xiii plus 279 pp. $30.00). Aaron Rock-Singer Aaron Rock-Singer Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, …
Sacralizing the Nation
In January 1935, Palestinian Islamic thinkers, in conversation with counterparts elsewhere in the Middle East and South Asia, concluded that those who sold or facilitated the sale of land to the Mandate Jewish community must be excommunicated. This article explores the emergence of such religious excommunication ( takfīr ) in Mandate Palestine between 1929 and 1935 based on a wide range of periodicals and pamphlets from this period. It argues tha…
On Salafism
Twilight of the Saints
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