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Author:   Arthur Shiwa Zárate (Assistant Professor of Global Humanities, Assistant Professor of Global Humanities, San José State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN:  

9780197827062

ISBN 10:   0197827063
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   14 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   To order  

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mediating God 1: Material Theologies: Egypt's Economic Conditions and the Material Foundations of Islamic Belief 2: Mediating God's Message: Embodiment, Affect, and Knowledge Transmission in the Muslim Brotherhood's Call (Da]cwa) 3: Ethics and the Elsewhere: God in History and Society 4: American Sufis: Self-Help, Sufism, and Metaphysical Religion in Postcolonial Egypt 5: Secularity and the State: The Secular Social Imaginary in Nasser's Egypt 6: Sufism and the Spirit of Activism: God and Spirituality in the Brotherhood's Call 7: God's Signs: Sufism, Cosmology, and the Critique of Human Empowerment in Nasser's Egypt 8: Gazing at God's Book: Islamic Natural Theology and the Believing Scientist 9: Encounters with the Paranormal: Science and the Unwieldy Powers of God Conclusion

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Arthur Shiwa Zárate is Assistant Professor of Global Humanities at San José State University. He completed a PhD in Modern Middle East history at Columbia University in 2018.

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