3 The Islamization of Egyptian Politics

This book has examined how the Free Officers were able to seize and consolidate power, topple the parliamentary regime, and put in place a new political order with them at the helm. It has shown that the erosion of liberalism in Egypt caused turmoil which in turn sparked clamors for drastic social and political reform. This created a situation that was exploited by the officers to stage a coup d'etat, and the military regime they established received support from the public and the intelligentsia. The officers initially refused to call their movement a revolution, and instead called themselves the “blessed movement.” They eventually declared their movement a revolution in early 1953; it was described by Anwar al-Sadat two years later as a “pragmatic march toward democracy.” This conclusion discusses the legacy of Nasser and Nasserism in Egyptian politics.

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The Clash of Civil Religions in Post-Revolutionary Egypt

Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3435-9.ch026 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 514-539

Author(s):

Bosmat Yefet

Keyword(s):

Civil Religion ◽

Analytical Models ◽

Civil State ◽

Muslim Brothers ◽

Egyptian Politics

The 2013 counter-revolution that led to the removal of President Mohammad Morsi and the election of former military chief, ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, as president indicate that Egypt has chosen the unifying framework of Egyptian nationalism and rejected the Islamic one proposed by the Muslim Brothers. These dichotomous categories obscure more than they reveal, because Egyptian politics after the 2011 revolution is also polarized between different visions of the 'civil state'. The civil religion paradigm and the conception of the clash of civil religions as analytical models will be used to enhance our understanding of the relationships between the religious and the civil models and to identify certain characteristics of one of the most striking outcomes of this revolution: the clash between civil models and, more precisely, the clash of civil religions.

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The Clash of Civil Religions in Post-Revolutionary Egypt

Comparative Perspectives on Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Political Influence - Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0516-7.ch006 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 156-189

Author(s):

Bosmat Yefet

Keyword(s):

Civil Religion ◽

Analytical Models ◽

Civil State ◽

Muslim Brothers ◽

Egyptian Politics

The 2013 counter-revolution that led to the removal of President Mohammad Morsi and the election of former military chief, ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, as president indicate that Egypt has chosen the unifying framework of Egyptian nationalism and rejected the Islamic one proposed by the Muslim Brothers. These dichotomous categories obscure more than they reveal, because Egyptian politics after the 2011 revolution is also polarized between different visions of the 'civil state'. The civil religion paradigm and the conception of the clash of civil religions as analytical models will be used to enhance our understanding of the relationships between the religious and the civil models and to identify certain characteristics of one of the most striking outcomes of this revolution: the clash between civil models and, more precisely, the clash of civil religions.

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