Islamic Fundamentalism in Arab Television: Islamism and Salafism in Competition

Skovgaard-Petersen, Jakob

doi:10.5040/9780755622702.ch-0011

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“…Three serials in the mid-2000s on leading ‘ulama (religious scholars) of the 20th century (al-Maraghi, ‘Abd al-Halim Mahmud, al-Sha‘rawi) must be seen as a compromise between an Islamist producer (and protagonist, Hassan Yusuf) and the state producers, in that it bolstered al-Azhar’s claim to be the true representative of Islam in the country, but only by depicting the sheikhs’ unrelenting struggle against the destructive forces of Secularism. In line with traditional ‘ulama biographies ( tabaqat ), these musalsals underline the moral rectitude of the ‘ulama and their willingness to speak up against power (Skovgaard-Petersen, 2011, p. 281). But they are also up against the cultural elite; Maraghi in the late 1930s against what he considers anti-Islamic plays at Cairo University, related to the Wafd Party, and al-Shaarawi against the cultural elite in the Nasserist 1960s.…”

Section: Defending Culture Against Islamist Abusementioning

confidence: 77%

Media controversies and the cultural policies of the Morsi government

Skovgaard-Petersen

2017

Communication and the Public

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When in June 2013 the cultural production environment mobilized against President Morsi and his minister of culture, this turned out to be a prelude to massive popular demonstrations and the removal of Morsi by the army. But what were the cultural policies of the Morsi government all about? The article traces the cultural policy agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party, and the major controversies they engendered when in power. It argues that Islamization of cultural life may have been a long-term goal, but not a priority in the Morsi government which, on the other hand, at the end of its reign clumsily pursued a policy of “ikhwanization.” Focusing on two controversial films about Egypt’s Jews and Copts, respectively, it discusses revisionist accounts of the minority issue that has emerged after the revolution, and the Morsi government’s position on it.

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Section: Defending Culture Against Islamist Abusementioning

confidence: 77%