Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399520751ISBN-10:139952075XUPC:9781399520751Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Film, Africa, Middle EastBook Topic:History & Criticism, North, EgyptSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.8717Product ID:SCADJBYJ2W
Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt
This book studies the rise of cinema in colonial Egypt as a supplemental secular public sphere that is not anti-religion. To this end, it investigates the reception of film by three centers of powers: the colonial authorities, the Muslim clergy, and the Cairene bourgeoisie. It inquires about the representations of modernity in films produced during the time and the place filmmakers assigned to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399520751ISBN-10:139952075XUPC:9781399520751Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Film, Africa, Middle EastBook Topic:History & Criticism, North, EgyptSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.8717Product ID:SCADJBYJ2W
Dr. Heba Arafa Abdelfattah graduated from Georgetown University in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies in 2017. Her research interests fall within the interdisciplinary area of humanities focusing on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of art as articulated in Arabic and Islamic thought in all its expressions(from the 7th to the 21st centuries). She works with sacred scripture,...
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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