Sallam Classless Politics

Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55494-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 472 Seiten

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics

Classless Politics offers a counterintuitive account of the relationship between neoliberal economics and Islamist politics in Egypt. Hesham Sallam examines why Islamist movements have gained support at the expense of the left, even amid conflicts over the costs of economic reforms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sallam, Hesham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction.More Identity, Less Class: Paths to Classless Politics
1.Inheriting Nasser’s Debts: The Rise and Fall of the Nasserist Social Pact
2.Islamist Incorporation in the State of Science and Faith
3.Sadat’s Brothers: Islamist Incorporation and the Autonomous Path
4.Nasser’s Comrades: State Guardianship and the Dependent Path
5.Islamist Incorporation, National Identity, and the Left: A Tale of Two Comrades
Conclusion. Reflections on the Legacies of Islamist Incorporation and the Post-Mubarak Politics
Appendix I. The Theoretical Argument, Key Concepts, and Central Assumptions
Appendix II. Critical Junctures and Path-Dependent Institutional Patterns
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hesham Sallam is a research scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, where he also serves as the associate director of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy. He is the editor of Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections, 2011–2012: A Critical Guide to a Changing Political Arena (2013), coeditor of Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World (2022), and a coeditor of the ezine Jadaliyya.