American roots for the advocates of "supermarkets" proved by Wael Lotfy's new book

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The preachers of the era, as represented by the model of Amr Khaled, called Wael Lotfy "advocates of supermarkets," and confirms that they have American roots, in a book recently published by the publishing house in Cairo.

Wael Lotfy said in the introduction to the book "Supermarket Advocates: The American Roots of the New Advocates". This pattern emerged in the early 1990s. Their appearance was remarkable, as they were not affiliated with the Al-Azhar preachers or with their traditional education or their Salafists. And the focus on the idea of ​​(human action) as a means of survival from fire.

"The new preachers were professionals and ordinary people who acquired religious culture through house lessons and mosque rings. They wore uniforms similar to those of the audience they listened to. They spoke in his simple dialect or white language, which combined the classical and the Arabic, On the one hand, and the Salafi preachers on the other.

In the opinion of Wael Lotfy that many did not realize that this difference in the language and in the nature of the composition was close to the clerics belonging to another religion are completely Protestant preachers who emerged as a result and a protest cry against the Catholic Church launched by Martin Luther in 1517 was not similarity in the essence of religion Confirmation, but it was similar in the way the wording of the speech, and the way to communicate, and to understand the role of the preacher or the cleric and the nature of his relationship with his audience.

The author concluded in the end of the book that this phenomenon is over .. But he says: This does not mean that they reproduce themselves waiting for the end of the compressor envelope that prevents them from expanding, and does not seem so far that there is an alternative model to fill the vacuum.

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