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Ian VanderMeulen

Ian VanderMeulen is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.

Book Review | Preaching Islamic Renewal: Religious Authority and Media in Contemporary Egypt

Issue 27, winter/spring 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/IVM27PIR The impacts of new media have long fascinated scholars of contemporary Muslim societies. Beginning from the premise that new media configurations portend the “fragmentation” of religious authority (Eickelman and Anderson 1999; Anderson 2003), such works often display a curious mix of euphoria and anxiety about …

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