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The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
Charles Hirschkind
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Description for The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
Hardback. Explores how a popular Islamic media form - the cassette sermon - has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East. Focusing on Cairo's popular neighborhoods, this book highlights the pivotal role these tapes play in an expanding arena of Islamic argumentation and debate - what the author calls an "Islamic counterpublic." Series: Cultures of History. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form--the cassette sermon--has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipresent in most Middle Eastern cities, punctuating the daily routines of many men and women. Hirschkind shows how sermon tapes have provided one of the means by which Islamic ethical traditions have been recalibrated to a modern political and technological order--to its noise and forms of pleasure and boredom, but also to its political incitements and call ... Read more
Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form--the cassette sermon--has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipresent in most Middle Eastern cities, punctuating the daily routines of many men and women. Hirschkind shows how sermon tapes have provided one of the means by which Islamic ethical traditions have been recalibrated to a modern political and technological order--to its noise and forms of pleasure and boredom, but also to its political incitements and call ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Cultures of History
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231138185
SKU
V9780231138185
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About Charles Hirschkind
Charles Hirschkind is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the coeditor, with David Scott, of Powers of the Secular Modern and has published numerous articles on religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the Middle East.
Reviews for The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
A very timely ethnography of Islam in general and Egypt in specific. Anthropology.net The relevance of this analytic project to readers both within and outside the academy cannot be underestimated.
Ilan Pappe Arab Studies Journal This stimulating book offers a sustained argument and excellent, accessible ethnography for specialists of Islamic politics and media alike. International Journal of Middle East ... Read more
Ilan Pappe Arab Studies Journal This stimulating book offers a sustained argument and excellent, accessible ethnography for specialists of Islamic politics and media alike. International Journal of Middle East ... Read more