Chapter 6 associates the spread of religious practices in Egypt with the growth of the middle class during the oil boom and ‘Open Door’ period, indicating how the Islamic resurgence intertwined with contemporary economic growth and the commercial liberalization of the economy, as opposed to merely functioning as an opposition or reaction to economic hardships. The transfer of remittances and their investment in Egypt together with the rapid spread of the ‘informal economy’ marked the growth of an Islamic sector in finances, commerce, construction, and small and medium manufacturing--as religious networks became business channels. Professional associations, for-profit and non-profit organizations, and NGOs, became centers of middle-class Islamic activism. All such forms of economic liberalization ‘from below’, albeit with tacit state support, enabled the spread of religion in society and polity. Furthermore, a simplistic division between a secular state and religious society hardly existed in that period of growing official religion and state patronage of Islamic enterprises and Islamic NGOs. Chapter 6 further explores the spread of ‘Islamic material culture’ in Egypt and its interaction with social mobility into the middle class and new social stratification strategies in Egyptian society. I argue that religious consumption enabled the creation of new socio-cultural distinctions in this age of rapid social transformation.