{"product_id":"read-in-the-name-of-your-lord-islamic-literacy-development-in-revolutionary-egypt-paperback-softback-9780253071040","title":"Read in the Name of Your Lord; Islamic Literacy Development in Revolutionary Egypt (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253071040","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRead in the Name of Your Lord\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIslamic Literacy Development in Revolutionary Egypt\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNermeen Mouftah (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253071040\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages, 9 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mouftah's careful ethnographic examination of adult literacy programs in Egypt acts as an intersection from which the reader can turn one way or another to explore everything from debates about Qur'anic hermeneutics and contemporary theories of development, to gender and language ideologies, the false promises of neoliberalism, and the cruel optimism of revolutionary hope.\"—Gregory Starrett, author of Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt\u003cbr\u003e \"In addition to tracing the social life of literacy campaign in Egypt, this book provocatively questions the privileging of literacy in the first place. Mouftah gives spaces to ways of knowing that rely on other modes of experiencing text. This pivot animates the very subjects who are objects of reform campaigns and in this Mouftah reverses the gaze and calls into question the readers' underlying assumptions.\"—Shenila Khoja-Moolji, author of Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eEgypt's January 2011 uprising spurred millions to action with a cacophony of demands—including the call to address Egypt's education crisis and adult literacy rates. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRead in the Name of Your Lord\u003c\/i\u003e traces the push for universal literacy as a project caught between revolutionary activism and Islamic reformism in post-Mubarak Egypt. Despite their many disagreements, religious reformers, revolutionaries, and state actors converged on literacy as the first step toward realizing aspirations of the revolution. They invoked the verse Muslims believe was the first to be revealed, \"Read in the name of your Lord,\" to teach literacy as a religious duty and the foundation for the country's future. Nermeen Mouftah unravels how this religiously inspired push for universal literacy was born of twenty-first-century scripturalism and simultaneously went beyond the Quran, to make reading and writing virtuous acts of the liberal state. While revolutionary literacy campaigns soon vanished and adult literacy rates remained stubbornly low, their efforts revealed the importance of recognizing alternative modes of text processing and the personhood and knowledge of nonliterate people. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRead in the Name of Your Lord\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the rise in modern scripturalism underpinned literacy activism, blurring the binary between secular and religious knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration and Translation\u003cbr\u003e Acronyms\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Girl in a School Uniform\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Faith in Reading\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction: God's First Command\u003cbr\u003e 1. Religious Reading in an Unlettered Nation\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: The Word of God for All\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e2. The Quran and Bible as Method\u003cbr\u003e 3. Scripturalism among Nonliterate Women\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: The Virtues of Basic Literacy\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e4. Making Mothers Read\u003cbr\u003e 5. Workers Writing Toward Dignity\u003cbr\u003e Postscript\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525704872216,"sku":"9780253071040","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/read-in-the-name-of-your-lord-islamic-literacy-development-in-revolutionary-egypt-paperback-softback-9780253071040","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}