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Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the
Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practices-praying in
shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and observing gender
segregation-are understood to have a similarly ancient pedigree. In
this book, however, Aaron Rock-Singer draws from a range of media
forms as well as traditional religious texts to demonstrate that
Salafism is a creation of the twentieth century and that its
signature practices emerged primarily out of Salafis' competition
with other social movements amid the intellectual and social
upheavals of modernity. In the Shade of the Sunna thus takes
readers beyond the surface claims of Salafism's own proponents-and
the academics who often repeat them-into the larger sociocultural
and intellectual forces that have shaped Islam's fastest growing
revivalist movement.
Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the
Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practices-praying in
shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and observing gender
segregation-are understood to have a similarly ancient pedigree. In
this book, however, Aaron Rock-Singer draws from a range of media
forms as well as traditional religious texts to demonstrate that
Salafism is a creation of the twentieth century and that its
signature practices emerged primarily out of Salafis' competition
with other social movements amid the intellectual and social
upheavals of modernity. In the Shade of the Sunna thus takes
readers beyond the surface claims of Salafism's own proponents-and
the academics who often repeat them-into the larger sociocultural
and intellectual forces that have shaped Islam's fastest growing
revivalist movement.
Following the ideological disappointment of the 1967 Arab-Israeli
War, an Islamic revival arose in Egypt. Yet, far from a mechanical
reaction to the decline of secular nationalism, this religious
shift was the product of impassioned competition among Muslim
Brothers, Salafis and state institutions and their varied efforts
to mobilize Egyptians to their respective projects. By pulling
together the linked stories of these diverse claimants to religious
authority and tracing the social and intellectual history of
everyday practices of piety, Aaron Rock-Singer shows how Islamic
activists and institutions across the political spectrum reshaped
daily practices in an effort to persuade followers to adopt novel
models of religiosity. In so doing, he reveals how Egypt's Islamic
revival emerged, who it involved, and why it continues to shape
Egypt today.
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