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In Building a House in Heaven, Mona Atia makes the connectionbetween Islam and capitalism to examine the surprising relations betweencharity and the economy, the state, and religion in the transition fromMubarak-era Egypt. She draws on interviews with key players, exploring thegeography of Islamic charities through multiple neighborhoods, ideologies,sources of funding, projects, and wide social networks.

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Mona Atia has given us a grand tour of the landscape of an increasingly Islamic oriented Egypt. She demonstrates how the state's attempted control over popular practices of religion may have laid the ground for a subsequent religious revival. Building a House in Heaven uncovers the contradictions of the Islamist-led human development project and shows how older established practices of Islamic charity merge with market-based approaches, resulting in a unique form of 'pious neoliberalism' that is increasingly shaping the future of Egypt. --Nezar AlSayyad, University of California, Berkeley

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Mona Atia is assistant professor of geography and international affairs at George Washington University.

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