Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt : The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality


S. S. Hasan
Bok Engelsk 2003 · Electronic books.
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Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2003.
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Glossary; Introduction; PART I: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; Prologue: The "True Egyptians"; 1. When Egypt Was Christian; 2. The Dawn of a New Era; 3. The Vanished Dream; PART II: THE SUNDAY SCHOOL MOVEMENT; 4. Rebels and Saints: The Middle Class and Church Reform; 5. Roots and Branches: Nāzir Jāyid versus Saad Aziz; 6. The Warring Founding Fathers: Bishop Shenuda, Bishop Samuel, and Abbot Matthew the Poor; PART III: THE CHURCH AS POLITICAL SPOKESMAN; 7. Dealing with the Muslim State: Pope Shenuda; PART IV: THE CHURCH AS SOCIOECONOMIC ENTREPRENEUR. - 8. Centralizing the Church Administration9. Haraka wa Barakah: Arsanios, a Model Bishop; 10. The Recruitment of Bishops; PART V: THE CHURCH AS CULTURAL AGENT; 11. Culture and Hegemony: "Islam Is the Solution"; 12. "The Glorious and the Sacred": Bishop Moses and the Socialization of the Young; PART VI: THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY; 13. Coptic Cultural Nationalism; 14. The Church as Battleground; 15. The Church as Amphitheater; PART VII: THREE QUESTIONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; 16. Toward a More Democratic Church?; 17. Toward the Empowerment of Women?. - Conclusion: Toward a New Basis for National Equality?Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. - The Copts of Egypt are the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. In recent years they have often figured in the news as victims of bloody attacks by Islamic militants. Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt is the first study of Christian identity politics in contemporary Egypt. S.S. Hasan begins by looking at how the Coptic generation of the 1940s and 1950s remembered, recovered, and imagined the ancient history of Christianity in Egypt in order to weld the Copts into a unified nation, resistant to the growing encroachments of Islam. She argues that this interpretation of history,
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