Presented By: Global Islamic Studies Center
GISC Rabbi Elliott T. Spar Politics and Culture in the Muslim World Series. Book Launch: The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt
Yasmin Moll, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology; Andrew Shryock, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology
Book Launch: The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt by Dr. Yasmin Moll
RSVP: http://bit.ly/RevolutionWithin416
Wednesday, April 16, 4:00 PM ET
CupsnChai Ann Arbor
214 S 4th Ave
Join the Global Islamic Studies Center at CupsnChai Ann Arbor on Wednesday, April 16, at 4pm for the book launch of Professor Yasmin Moll's new book, The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt. This event will be moderated by Professor Andrew Shryock, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Free chai & snacks will be provided!
About the book:
The New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help—came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an innovative and inclusive Islamic piety that millions of young middle-class viewers found radical and compelling—but were scorned as neoliberal by leftists, as stealth Islamists by secularists, and as too Westernized by other Muslim preachers.
Drawing on long-term fieldwork with the New Preachers, their producers, and followers in Cairo, Yasmin Moll shows how Islamic media and the social life of theology mattered to contestations over the shape of a New Egypt. These mass-mediated fractures within Islamic Revivalism were happening at a time of both revolutionary possibility and authoritarian entrenchment. The New Preachers' Islamic media inspired a "revolution within" that transcended the country's divisions and anticipated the ethos of creativity, solidarity, and coexistence that soon would mark Tahrir Square, the ethical epicenter of the 2011 uprising. Vividly written and boldly theorized, The Revolution Within challenges conventional accounts of the 2011 revolution and its aftermath as a struggle between secular and religious forces, reconsidering what makes a practice virtuous, a public Islamic, a way of life Godly.
About the author:
Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Anthropology. Her new book, The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt, is out with Stanford University Press in the series Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures. Moll is an ethnographic filmmaker and a former member of the Michigan Society of Fellows (2014-2017).
About the moderator:
Andrew Shryock is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He studies political culture in the Middle East, Arab and Muslim communities in North America, and new approaches to history writing. His books include Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan (1997), Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend (2010), Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present (with Daniel Smail, 2011), and Beyond Refuge in Arab Detroit (with Yasmeen Hanoosh and Sally Howell, 2025).
Purchasing Dr. Moll's book?
Order using the promo code below for a discount!
$32.00 paperback, 368 pages
Receive 20% off at http://www.sup.org/ with code: MOLL20
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This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan. This talk is a part of the GISC Rabbi Elliott T. Spar “Politics and Culture in the Muslim World” series.
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Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter here! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.
Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Are you a student looking for funding?
Graduate Funding Opportunities: https://bit.ly/GISCGradFunding
Undergrad Funding Opportunities: https://bit.ly/GISCUndergradFunding
Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- islamicstudies@umich.edu
RSVP: http://bit.ly/RevolutionWithin416
Wednesday, April 16, 4:00 PM ET
CupsnChai Ann Arbor
214 S 4th Ave
Join the Global Islamic Studies Center at CupsnChai Ann Arbor on Wednesday, April 16, at 4pm for the book launch of Professor Yasmin Moll's new book, The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt. This event will be moderated by Professor Andrew Shryock, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Free chai & snacks will be provided!
About the book:
The New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help—came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an innovative and inclusive Islamic piety that millions of young middle-class viewers found radical and compelling—but were scorned as neoliberal by leftists, as stealth Islamists by secularists, and as too Westernized by other Muslim preachers.
Drawing on long-term fieldwork with the New Preachers, their producers, and followers in Cairo, Yasmin Moll shows how Islamic media and the social life of theology mattered to contestations over the shape of a New Egypt. These mass-mediated fractures within Islamic Revivalism were happening at a time of both revolutionary possibility and authoritarian entrenchment. The New Preachers' Islamic media inspired a "revolution within" that transcended the country's divisions and anticipated the ethos of creativity, solidarity, and coexistence that soon would mark Tahrir Square, the ethical epicenter of the 2011 uprising. Vividly written and boldly theorized, The Revolution Within challenges conventional accounts of the 2011 revolution and its aftermath as a struggle between secular and religious forces, reconsidering what makes a practice virtuous, a public Islamic, a way of life Godly.
About the author:
Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Anthropology. Her new book, The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt, is out with Stanford University Press in the series Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures. Moll is an ethnographic filmmaker and a former member of the Michigan Society of Fellows (2014-2017).
About the moderator:
Andrew Shryock is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He studies political culture in the Middle East, Arab and Muslim communities in North America, and new approaches to history writing. His books include Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan (1997), Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend (2010), Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present (with Daniel Smail, 2011), and Beyond Refuge in Arab Detroit (with Yasmeen Hanoosh and Sally Howell, 2025).
Purchasing Dr. Moll's book?
Order using the promo code below for a discount!
$32.00 paperback, 368 pages
Receive 20% off at http://www.sup.org/ with code: MOLL20
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This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan. This talk is a part of the GISC Rabbi Elliott T. Spar “Politics and Culture in the Muslim World” series.
----
Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter here! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.
Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Are you a student looking for funding?
Graduate Funding Opportunities: https://bit.ly/GISCGradFunding
Undergrad Funding Opportunities: https://bit.ly/GISCUndergradFunding
Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- islamicstudies@umich.edu
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