344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the political relationship between the Muslim majority and Coptic minority in Egypt between 1918 and 1952. Many Egyptians hoped to see the collaboration of the 1919 revolution spur the creation of both a new collective Egyptian identity and a state without religious bias. Traditional ways of governing, however, were not so easily cast aside.
Some Egyptians held tenaciously to... Read more
Acknowledgements. Notes on Transliteration and Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Communal Organisation 2. The British, the Copts, and the Nationalist Movement 3. The Limits of the Political Community and Egypt’s National Identity 4. Representative Institutions 5. The Copts and Party Politics 6. The Copts and the State 7. Ethnicity and Religion in the Struggle for Power. Conclusion. Bibliography. Interviews.
Biography
B.L. Carter
