Civic Virtue and Religious Reason: An Islamic Counterpublic
Author(s)
Hirschkind, Charles
Abstract
Hirschkind argues that the emphasis placed on the recuperation and cultivation of Islamic virtues by preachers and sermon audiences in Egypt needs to be seen in light of the role ascribed to those virtues in creating the ethical conditions for a domain of public deliberation and argumentation, a domain that over the course of this century has come to be seen by many Egyptian Muslims as necessary for the revival and strengthening of the Islamic community.
