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The Islamist movement and the subversion of secularism in modern Egypt.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Islamist movement and the subversion of secularism in modern Egypt.
Author:	Glicksberg, Joseph Benjamin.
Description:	279 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Ian S. Lustick.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3826.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3109179
ISBN:	0496567225

The Islamist movement and the subversion of secularism in modern Egypt.
Glicksberg, Joseph Benjamin.

The Islamist movement and the subversion of secularism in modern Egypt. [electronic resource] - 279 p.

Adviser: Ian S. Lustick.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2003.

In this dissertation I explore the puzzle of why Egyptian secularists, many of whom were in positions of great power both inside and outside the state, have historically moved in an increasingly Islamic direction and failed to legitimize secularism as a discourse on its own terms. The result of this failure to legitimize and institutionalize secularism has been a crucial factor behind the success of the Egyptian Islamist movement, which has Islamicized Egyptian society without seizing the state. My answer to this puzzle is that Islamist entrepreneurs have been able to effectively strengthen Islam's ideological hegemony---i.e., its seemingly natural status as Egypt's primary identity referent. In reinforcing Islam's hegemony, the Islamists have made Islamic ideology increasingly resistant to attacks on the part of secularists working to strip it of its sacred status. I use Gramscian hegemonic analysis and the concept of "war of position" to examine the strategies and tactics that secularists and Islamists have used in prominent press battles sparked by controversial books and government policies during the monarchy, Nasser, and Sadat-Mubarak eras. I show that two of the main factors underlying the subversion of secularism in Egypt have been: (1) an accommodating stance on the part of Islamists in the early part of the twentieth century, which historically allowed them to "convert" many secularists to their cause, and (2) the recurrent use of Islamic discourse on the part of secularists in their defense and promotion of secularism. The result of these tactics has been secularism's metamorphosis into an ideology that has not had a legitimacy base independent of Islamic discourse. My findings run counter to the argument presented in much of the literature on the rise of Islamism in Egypt, which posits that it was a reaction to secular governments' removal of Islam from the ideological field. In contrast, I show that Islam's presence, rather than its absence, in Egypt's ideological field has been a key ingredient behind the ascendancy of Islam that many scholars see as marking contemporary Egyptian identity.

ISBN: 0496567225Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

The Islamist movement and the subversion of secularism in modern Egypt.
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