RT Article
T1 Egypt’s Salafi Awakening in the 1970s: Revisiting the History of a Crucial Decade for Egyptian Islamic Activism
JF Religions
VO 13
IS 4
A1 Lacroix, Stéphane 1978-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1807375951
AB This article aims at revisiting the history of Egyptian Islamic activism during the important decade of the 1970s, by reintroducing a crucial element that is absent from the existing academic literature: the role played by Salafi ideas in the religious socialization of 1970s Egyptian Islamic activists. Far from only being the product of Saudi Arabia’s intense petrodollar-funded proselytization efforts, these Salafi ideas had already gained a foothold in Egypt in the first half of the 20th century, when they started being promoted by organizations such as Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya, which saw itself as a rival to the Muslim Brotherhood. Reintroducing this element helps complexify a historiographical narrative of the 1970s that has been mostly centered around the Muslim Brotherhood and the posthumous role played by the ideas of radical thinker Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966), and it is key to a more accurate and nuanced understanding of the subsequent evolutions of Egyptian Islamic activism.
K1 Egypt
K1 Islamic activism
K1 Islamism
K1 Nasser
K1 Salafism
DO 10.3390/rel13040316