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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453783803321

Autore

Tadros Samuel

Titolo

Motherland lost : the Egyptian and coptic quest for modernity / / Samuel Tadros

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8179-1646-6

0-8179-1648-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Herbert and Jane Dwight working group on Islamism and the international order

Disciplina

932

Soggetti

Copts - History

Copts - Egypt

Religious minorities - Egypt

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword by Fouad Ajami and Charles Hill; Foreword by Charles Hill; Acknowledgments; A Note on Names and Dates; Chronology; Introduction; One: Sons of Saint Mark; Two: Under the Banner of Islam; Three: Corsican General, Albanian Commander; Four: What Is Modernity Anyway?; Five: We the...? Forming a National Identity; Six: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Age; Seven: Pharaohs and Titans; Conclusion: The Bitterness of Leaving, the Peril of Staying; Bibliography; About the Author

About the Hoover Institution's Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International OrderIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of Copts?the native Egyptian Christians?and their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it faced its own struggles with modernity. He argues that the modern plight of Copts is inseparable from the crisis of modernity and the answers developed to address that crisis by the Egyptian state and intellectuals, as well as by the Coptic Church and laypeople.