Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt

Heba Arafa Abdelfattah

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Edinburgh University Press
24 January 2024

Films, movies & cinema; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Islamic studies

This book studies the rise of cinema in colonial Egypt as a supplemental secular public sphere that is not anti-religion. To this end, it investigates the reception of film by three centers of powers: the colonial authorities, the Muslim clergy, and the Cairene bourgeoisie. It inquires about the representations of modernity in films produced during the time and the place filmmakers assigned to Islam in these representations. The result is a story of survival and coexistence told through the lens of cinema as modern art and popular culture negotiating its overt and covert censorship in the public sphere, despite colonization and war.

By: Heba Arafa Abdelfattah
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399520751
ISBN 10: 139952075X
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 24 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Heba Arafa Abdelfattah is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer of Religious Studies in the Institute of Sacred Music & the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. She graduated from Georgetown University in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. She was a visiting assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, and a research fellow at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London, UK. Dr. Abdelfattah's research interests and expertise range from classic religious texts, including the Qur'an and Prophetic tradition (Hadith), to modern Arabic literature, film, and popular culture. She is interested in Islamic thought in all its expressions from the 7th to the 21st centuries. She works with sacred scripture, literary texts, archival documents, films, and artistic production to understand questions of creativity and creative experiences at the intersection of discourses of Islam and modernity. Her articles appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as Religions, the Review of Middle East Studies, the International Journal of Communication, and the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies (JIMS). Dr. Abdelfattah also serves as a board member for the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS) and a film review editor of the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies (JIMS).

Reviews for Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt

Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the Egyptian cinema in its engagement with dominant socio-political forces; Islamic institutions, colonialism and the Cairene nationalist bourgeoisie. Heba Afara Abdelfattah's work is a much-needed contribution, richly researched and intellectually engaging.--Hanan Hammad, Texas Christian University Abdelfattah takes Arabic cinema studies in daring new directions, challenging - as do so many of the classic movies she covers - frozen critical framings of social class, faith, national identity and, above all, what it meant to be 'modern' in colonial Egypt. This book will compel us to re-view so many of our favourite films.--Joel Gordon, Revolutionary Melodrama Heba Abdelfattah's fascinating book shows how different interest groups, ranging from British colonizers to conservative religious scholars and progressive urban elites, tried to make the emerging Egyptian film industry work for them. This is a masterful analysis of how their interactions shaped the new media of cinema and its discourse on modernity and on Islam.--Frank Griffel, Yale University