ABSTRACT
As stated in Chapter 1, YŪsuf al-Qaraḍāwī, ‘Amr Khālid and Muḥammad ‘Imāra have a common goal: to support the ongoing Islamic awakening (ṣaḥwa). However, this ‘awakening’ and the correlate term ‘Islamism’ that describes its political and social manifestations are not one-dimensional ones. This is reflected in the texts we have analysed so far: the three writers' approaches to the task of supporting the ṣaḥwa are very different from each other. Two likely reasons for these differences are the roles they assume in the Islamic field and their respective ways of persuading. Muḥammad ‘Imāra is an academic and intellectual, while ‘Amr Khālid and Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī represent two very different kinds of preachers who nevertheless share the practice of proselytizing. In the preceding analyses, I have treated separately the questions of how these three writers construe interpersonal relationships with their readers and how they construe images of Islam. Now I will connect these questions to the writers' positions in the Islamic field. The aim of this chapter is twofold: to show how their rhetorical choices constitute them as individuals within distinct groups in the field, and to discuss how they contribute to shaping ideological encounters within Egypt and on a global scale.
