The Copts of Egypt : the challenges of modernisation and identity / Vivian Ibrahim.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2013Description: xv, 258 pages : photographs, tables ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781780764665 (pbk.)
- 22 IBR 962.004932
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book - Borrowing | Central Library Second Floor | Alahram | 962.004932 IBR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 325 | Available | 000038712 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Inter-communal relations : the Copts and the state (1805-1946). Religion and state-building in the Khedival period (1798-1882) ; The making of new national identities (1882-1919) ; Constitutional politics and political Islam (1922-1946) -- Intra-communal relations : the Coptic community from within (1882-1954). Benevolence and philanthropy (1882-1945) ; Factionalism and corruption (1882-1945) ; A Coptic revolution : Harakat Al-Tathir (1952-1954).
"The Copts of Egypt, who make up 10-15 percent of the population, have traditionally been viewed as a 'beleaguered and persecuted minority.' Using newly discovered Coptic archival sources, Vivian Ibrahim presents a fresh and vivid alternative reading of the community during the twentieth centry. Avoiding the established portrayal of a monolithic entity headed by the Coptic Pope, Ibrahim examines the multifaceted dimensions of the Coptic community, assessing Coptic-State relations on one hand and Coptic intra-communal dimensions on the other."--P. [2] of jacket.
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