Sectarian Conflict In Egypt

Author : Elizabeth Iskander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136313648
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sectarian Conflict in Egypt written by Elizabeth Iskander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the Egyptian uprising in early 2011, understanding the dynamics that are shaping Egyptian politics and society is more crucial than ever as Egypt seeks to re-define itself after the Mubarak era. One of the most controversial debates concerns the place of religion in Egypt’s political future. This book examines the escalation in religious violence in Egypt since 2005 and the public discourses behind it, revealing some of the complex negotiations that lie behind contestations of citizenship, Muslim-Christian relations and national unity. Focusing on Egypt’s largest religious minority group, the Coptic Orthodox Christians, this book explores how national, ethnic and religious expressions of identity are interwoven in the narratives and usage of the press and Internet. In doing so it offers insights into some of Egypt’s contemporary social and political challenges, and recognises the ways that media are involved in constructing and reflecting formations of identity politics. The author examines in depth the processes through which identity and belonging are negotiated via media discourses within the wider framework of changing political realities in Egypt. Using a combination of methodological approaches - including comprehensive surveys and content analysis - the research offers a fresh perspective on the politics of identity in Egypt.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sectarian Conflict in Egypt written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nadia Ramsis Farah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135091080
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Religious Strife in Egypt (RLE Egypt) written by Nadia Ramsis Farah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical analysis investigates the causes that brought about one of the most tumultuous periods in modern Egyptian history – the clashes between the Muslims and Copts during the 1970s. A unique retrospective, it features probing interviews with Egyptian intellectuals, writers, political and religious leaders, as well as common citizens from both the Muslim and Copt communities. Within a framework of economic, political and ideological factors, Nadia Ramsis Farah is able to synthesize a compelling portrait of a troubled national conscience in the face of religious strife. First published 1986.

Author : Laure Guirguis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503600807
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Copts and the Security State written by Laure Guirguis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority. Laure Guirguis considers how the state, through its subjugation of Coptic citizens, reproduces a political order based on religious identity and difference. The leadership of the Coptic Church, in turn, has taken more political stances, thus foreclosing opportunities for secularization or common ground. In each instance, the underlying logics of authoritarianism and sectarianism articulate a fear of the Other, and, as Guirguis argues, are ultimately put to use to justify the expanding Egyptian security state. In outlining the development of the security state, Guirguis focuses on state discourses and practices, with particular emphasis on the period of Hosni Mubarak's rule, and shows the transformation of the Orthodox Coptic Church under the leadership of Pope Chenouda III. She also considers what could be done to counter the growing tensions and violence in Egypt. The 2011 Egyptian uprising constitutes the most radical recent attempt to subvert the predominant order. Still, the revolutionary discourses and practices have not yet brought forward a new system to counter the sectarian rhetoric, and the ongoing counter-revolution continues to repress political dissent.

Author : Girgis Naiem
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476671206
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Egypt's Identities in Conflict written by Girgis Naiem and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt's lack of a common national identity is the basis for much of its internal conflict--Coptic Christians have been particularly affected. Once major contributors to Christian civilization, their influence ended with the fifth century Council of Chalcedon and they endured persecution. With the seventh century Arabization of Egypt, Copts were given dhimma or "protected persons" status. The 1919 Revolution granted them greater political participation, but the 1952 Revolution ended liberal democracy and established a military regime that championed Arab identity. Secular Egyptians rebelled against the Mubarak regime in 2011, yet his successor was the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first Islamist president. In yet another revolution over national identity, secular factions ousted Morsi in 2013 while in the chaos that followed, the Copts suffered the brunt of violence.

Author : Elizabeth Iskander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415695783
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sectarian Conflict in Egypt written by Elizabeth Iskander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Egypt's largest religious minority group, the Coptic Orthodox Christians, this book explores how national, ethnic and religious expressions of identity are interwoven in the narratives and usage of the press and Internet. It also offers insights into two of modern Egypt's biggest political challenges: preventing sectarian conflict and managing the relationship between religion and politics.

Author : Peter E. Makari
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815631446
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Conflict and Cooperation written by Peter E. Makari and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt is considered the intellectual birthplace of the modern Islamic movements, and is a center of Islamic thought and culture. It is also home to one of the oldest Christian populations in the world. While conflict between these two communities is often the focus of media attention in the region, important efforts to advocate for and support positive inter-communal relations are finding a degree of success. In this book, Peter Makari considers the role of governmental and non-governmental actors in conflict resolution and the promotion of positive Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt. He maintains that, prevailing opinions notwithstanding, the last quarter-century has witnessed a high level of inter-religious cooperation and tolerance. Relying heavily on Arabic sources, Makari examines the rhetoric and actions of official governmental and religious institutions. Combining empirical research with an informed theoretical perspective, this work offers a perspective seldom available to the English reader on questions of tolerance, citizenship, and civil society in this part of the Arab world.

Author : Ariel G. Lopez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520274830
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty written by Ariel G. Lopez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. This book studies his numerous Coptic writings and finds them to be the most important literary source for the study of society, economy and religion in late antique Egypt. The issues and concerns Shenoute grappled with on a daily basis, Ariel Lopez argues, were not local problems, unique to one small corner of the ancient world. Rather, they are crucial to interpreting late antiquity as a historical period—rural patronage, religious intolerance, the Christian care of the poor and the local impact of the late Roman state. His little known writings provide us not only with a rare opportunity to see the life of a holy man as he himself saw it, but also with a privileged window into his world. Lopez brings Shenoute to prominence as witness of and participant in the major transformations of his time.

Author : Angie Heo
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520297989
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Political Lives of Saints written by Angie Heo and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS’s rise in 2014, Egypt’s Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state. Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer’s eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the Arab Muslim world.

Author : Kerry Muhlestein
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports
ISBN 13 : 9781407308760
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Violence in the Service of Order written by Kerry Muhlestein and published by British Archaeological Reports. This book was released on 2011 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is hoped to be only the beginning of explorations of the ancient Egyptian notion of upholding Order (Maat) through violence. Because of the scope of the topic, this study is limited to the most extreme measure of violence perpetrated in the service of Order: sanctioned killing. This study explores texts that affirm the proper occasions for such killings, and the religious framework behind these actions. Contents: 1) The Act of Killing: An introduction; 2) Death by Narmer an Others: the Archaic Period; 3) Slaying under the Aegis of the Go-King: The Old Kingdom; 4) Sanctioned Killing in the Time Between: The First Intermediate Period; 5) Death by Drowning, Burning, and Flaying: The Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period; 6) The Slayings of the Great Pharaohs: Dynasty 18; 7) Instances of Intrigue: The Ramesside Era; 8) The Constancy of Killing Amidst Anarchy: Dynasties 21, 22, 25, and 26; 9) A Time to Kill: The Appropriateness of Violence; 10) Foreigners and Isfet; 11) Violent Myth in the Ritual of Return.