Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt

The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work, Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and a growing state interest in religious instruction have changed the way the Islamic tradition is reproduced.

During the twentieth century new styles of religious education, based not on the recitati...