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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Islam in Contemporary Egypt: Civil Society vs. the State. By Denis J. Sullivan and Sana Abed-Kotob. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999. 159p. $49.95
Beteiligte:
Zubaida, Sami
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2001
Beschreibung:
<jats:p>"Civil society" has become a key concept and a central quest
in the search for paths to democracy and liberty in many parts
of the world. This search has been particularly notable in
Egypt, where an increasingly totalitarian state has sought in
recent decades to project an image of democracy but at the
same time attack and undermine all potential bases of social
autonomy and political action. These are the central issues
discussed in this book. The picture is complicated by the
prominent part played by religious and religio-communal
politics on the Egyptian stage. Are Islamic associations and
forms of political action forces of civil society engaged in the
quest for social autonomies and liberation from authoritarian
strictures, or do they themselves add another tier of repres-
sion in the name of religious conformity and moral conduct?</jats:p>