RT Article
T1 Practices of Piety: An Alternative Approach to the Study of Islamic Movements
JF Religions
VO 11
IS 10
A1 Rock-Singer, Aaron
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1736641972
AB 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 al-Tawhid (Monolatry, 1973-93), the article explores the conditions in which practices such as praying in shoes and bareheaded, gender segregation and the cultivation of a fist-length beard were both politically viable and strategically advantageous. In doing so, it not only casts light on the trajectory of this movement, but also shows how and why the articulation and performance of distinct social practices are central to how Islamic movements shape society.
K1 Egypt
K1 Islamic movements
K1 Salafism
K1 Piety
DO 10.3390/rel11100520