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ABOUT
Aaron Rock-Singer is a social and intellectual historian of Islam and the Modern Middle East. He received his B.A from the University of Pennsylvania (2007), his M.Phil from St. Antony’s College, Oxford (2010) and his Ph.D from Princeton’s Department of Near Eastern Studies (2016). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House and, in July 2017, will join Cornell's Department of Near Eastern Studies as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
Aaron's research draws on mass and small media to trace the changing relationship between religion, politics and society in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Egypt. He has published six articles in peer reviewed journals, including The International Journal of Middle East Studies, The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, The Muslim World, and Islamic Law and Society. In September 2016, he published an E-book, entitled "Islamists and Autocrats: What the Next Administration Needs to Know about the Current Egyptian Landscape and its Origins." Aaron is currently preparing a book, based partially on his dissertation, that charts the rise of the Islamic Revival in Egypt over the past forty years in global perspective.
More information on his research and teaching can be found in his CV and at http://aaronrocksinger.academia.edu.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Islamic Thought
Islamic Studies
Publishing
Islamic Law
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Specialties
Lay Religious Authority
"Religious" Education In Egypt
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Hebrew (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2016
| Near Eastern Studies
| Princeton University
MPhil
| 2010
| Oriental Studies
| Oxford University
BA
| 2007
| Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
| University of Pennsylvania
Abstracts
The Rise of Lay Religious Authority in 1970's Egypt: The Case of Dr.Mustafa Mahmud
Forming a Pious Public: Islamic Magazines and Religious Revival in Egypt, 1976-1981
Beards, Barracks and Barbershops: Contemporary Negotiations of Salafi Masculinity
Censoring the Kishkophone: Religion and State Power in Mubarak’s Egypt
Winds of Pious Change: The Consolidation of Salafi Social Practice, 1980-1995
A Radical Innovation: the Salafi Transformation of the Boundaries of Worship, 1930-90
The Madhhab of the Quran and Sunna? Salafism, Textual Reasoning, and the Islamic Tradition
