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Liberalism without Democracy
Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922–1936
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Abdeslam M. Maghraoui
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Edited by:
Julia Adams
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English
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2006
About this book
This analysis of the failure of efforts to achieve liberal reform in Egypt following its independence from Great Britain in 1922 has implications for modern-day nation-building efforts in the Mideast.
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Abdeslam M. Maghraoui is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University.
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“Liberalism without Democracy raises fundamentally important issues and is incredibly timely and relevant to current debates in the Middle East about democratization and foreign intervention.”—Diane Singerman, coeditor of Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East
“Abdeslam Maghraoui’s book is among the more cogent recent explanations of the reasons liberalism failed in the Middle East. Through its examination of the role of language and culture in Egypt, Liberalism without Democracy sheds light on a central weakness of liberalism—its commitment to individual liberty and colonial conquest.”—Edmund Burke III, coeditor of After the Colonial Turn: Orientalism, History, and Theory
“This is a valuable book. [This is not] simply a thorough, detailed study of Egyptian politics. . . . [It] is much more than that. It is relevant to the present American misadventure in Iraq and to Western imperialism more generally. . . . Perhaps no one else has thoroughly documented, as well as Maghraoui, the extent to which some “liberal” writers tried to mimic the West. The author has provided much compelling evidence to support the ideas of those scholars who decry the confusion between modernization and Westernization.”
-- Glenn Perry Middle East Studies Digest
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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One. Colonialism as a Literary and Historical Phenomenon
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Two. The Colonial Encounter in Egypt
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Three. Defining the Boundaries of the Political Community
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Four. The Cultural Preconditions of Citizenship
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Five. Egypt’s Liberal Experiment in Comparative Perspective
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Selected bibliography
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Index
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