In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East

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¹ This insight can also be applied to Salafi jihadists, who are engaged in armed struggle, yet have also developed a rich aesthetic culture that acts as resistance art, such as jihadi poetry, a cappella songs (anashid), storytelling, and iconography. See Thomas Hegghammer (ed.), Jihadi Culture: The Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

² Aaron Rock-Singer, Practicing Islam in Egypt: Printed Media and Islamic Revival (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

³ See also Emmanuel Sivan, “The Enclave Culture,” in Fundamentalisms Comprehended, eds. Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, vol. 5. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995), 27–32.

⁴ Israel Gershoni, “The Reader – ‘Another Production:’ The Reception of Haykal’s Biography of Muhammad and the Shift of Egyptian Intellectuals to Islamic Subjects in the 1930s,” Poetics Today 15 (1994): 241–277.

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Meir Hatina

Meir Hatina is professor in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and Jack and Alice Ormut Chair in Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of research focus on the history of ideas and politics in the modern Middle East and from a comparative perspective, especially in relation to Western and Jewish thought.