Jacquelene G Brinton Preaching Islamic Renewal sku-45969318

Preaching Islamic Renewal: Religious Authority and Media in Contemporary Egypt is an edition 1 hardcover by Jacquelene G Brinton, listed under Religion & Religious Studies Books. SKU: sku-45969318. The book examines Muhammad Mitwalli Sha‘rawi, an Egyptian Islamic preacher whose Friday television program ran for years until his death in 1998.

At the height of his career, an estimated up to 30 million people watched each week. Despite his influence in Egypt and the wider Muslim world, academics long gave him little attention. His career challenges the claim, common in scholarship on modern Egyptian Islam, that traditionally trained Muslim scholars lost religious authority.

A well-trained Sunni scholar, Sha‘rawi became a national media figure, advised Egypt's rulers and was the first Arab television preacher. He was both influential and controversial. His performances are still regularly viewed through videos shown on television and the Internet. Brinton uses his work to examine how traditional Muslim authorities use media to present ideas about renewing Islam.

His weekly appearances brought longstanding theological and ethical beliefs to a broad audience and affected social and political life in Egypt.