Beyond secular and religious
An intellectual genealogy of Tahrir Square
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2279313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Hirschkind (0000-0002-3043-2395, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-53 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01346.x |
| OpenAlex | W2140443777 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 2 |
Competing visions of Egypt's future have long been divided along secular versus religious lines, a split that both the Sadat and Mubarak regimes exploited to weaken political opposition. In this context, one striking feature of the Egyptian uprising that took place last spring is the extent to which it defied characterization in terms of the religious-secular binary. In this commentary, I explore how this movement drew sustenance from a unique political sensibility, one disencumbered of the secular versus religious oppositional logic and its concomitant forms of political rationality. This sensibility has a distinct intellectual genealogy within Egyptian political experience. I focus here on the careers of three Egyptian public intellectuals whose pioneering engagement with the question of the place of Islam within Egyptian political life provided an important part of the scaffolding, in my view, for the practices of solidarity and association that brought down the Mubarak regime. [Egypt, politics, intellectuals, secular, Islam
Binary opposition · Epistemology · Islam · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Sensibility · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of religion · Theology · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Religious studies
La fabrique séculière du droit musulman
Religious Freedom, the Minority Question, and Geopolitics in the Middle East
Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation
Utopian confluences
La specificità tunisina
Focus on the Busy Intersections of Culture and Cultural Change
Theorizing Revolutionary Practice
Revolt and revolution
Who Represents the Revolutionaries? Examples from the Egyptian Revolution 2011
Lectures thématiques
Encompassing Judaism
Gendered Space and Middle East Studies
Présentation
Salat-al-Juma
Bamba Merci
Quantas Vezes se Deve Romper com um Regime para Precipitar Seu Fim? Uma Interpelação ao Egito Pós-Mubārak
The Ibtihalat in the Digital Age
Transgressing the Religious-Secular Divide
Rostificação e figurabilidade
Afetos seculares
From blood to fruit
On Precariousness and the Ethical Imagination
Flowers in Uncertain Times
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |