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

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

Hasan, S. S.

Hardcover

African HistoryComparative ReligionGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0195138686
ISBN13: 9780195138689
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 4 2003
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.37
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.66
Language: English
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, in which Egyptian martyrs figure prominently, made possible the rebirth of the Coptic church and community-in much the same way as the preservation of Hebrew and the historical memory of Jewish tribulations served the purpose of national reconstruction of the state of Israel.

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