What makes media “Islamic”? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Islamic television producers in Cairo, this article looks at the passionate contention within Egypt’s piety movement over the development of new forms of religious media. I suggest that at stake in these mass-mediated debates over da‘wa (Islamic outreach) are conflicting theologies of mediation that configure the boundaries of the religious and the secular differently. This God-talk matters greatly to Islamic revivalists, who spend more time debunking each other than they do secularists. Attention to these internal critiques foregrounds the competing moral conceptions of human flourishing and divine obligation that animate Egypt’s Islamic Revival. Indeed, focusing on the piety movement’s internal fractures as God-talk allows for an ethnographic engagement with how Muslim adepts critique religious difference—and the difference that religious critique makes—beyond the imperatives of secular power. This focus, in turn, complicates the stakes of anthropological judgment.

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电视不是广播：埃及伊斯兰复兴中的调解神学

是什么使媒体“伊斯兰化”？本文利用开罗伊斯兰电视制片人种志的田野调查，着眼于埃及虔诚运动对新型宗教媒体发展的热烈争论。我建议，在有关“ da'wa”（伊斯兰外展）的大众媒介辩论中，处于冲突状态的调解神学正处于冲突之中，调解神学对宗教和世俗的界限有不同的配置。这场神语对伊斯兰复兴主义者非常重要，他们比世俗主义者花费更多的时间互相揭穿。对这些内部批判的关注是使埃及的伊斯兰复兴充满生气的人类繁荣和神圣义务的相互竞争的道德观念。确实，着眼于虔诚运动的内部破裂，因为神的话语使人种学得以介入，穆斯林超越了世俗势力的要求，擅长批评宗教的宗教差异以及宗教批评所造成的差异。反过来，这种关注使人类学判断的风险复杂化。