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Author Hasan, S. S.

Title Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt : the Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Contents; Glossary; Introduction; PART I: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; PART II: THE SUNDAY SCHOOL MOVEMENT; PART III: THE CHURCH AS POLITICAL SPOKESMAN; PART IV: THE CHURCH AS SOCIOECONOMIC ENTREPRENEUR; PART V: THE CHURCH AS CULTURAL AGENT; PART VI: THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY; PART VII: THREE QUESTIONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; Conclusion: Toward a New Basis for National Equality?; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
Summary 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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Subject Coptic Church -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century.
Coptic Church.
Egypt.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
Christianity and other religions.
Islam.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
Relations.
Christianity.
Egypt -- Church history -- 20th century.
Church history.
Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1970-1981.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1970-1981
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780195138689
ISBN 9780195350104 (electronic book)
0195350103 (electronic book)