Negotiating Egyptian nationalism: Militant Islamist confrontations with the state and the fragmentation of political authority

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dc.contributor.authorMusekamp, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-06T23:54:34Z
dc.date.available2026-02-06T23:54:34Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractSince Egypt’s 1952 Free Officer coup d’état, Egypt has been governed by authoritarian regimes and nationalism has served as the central ideological basis for political authority. This paper explores the period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, when militant Islamist opposition toward the Sadat and Mubarak regimes was one of the most significant threats to state security and one of the biggest challenges to the ruling regimes’ hegemony over political authority. This paper argues that the negotiation of national identity was crucial to the Egyptian state’s confrontation with militant Islamist groups during the late Sadat presidency and the Mubarak era to the 1990s; however, the state’s endorsement of an “Islamized” Egyptian nationalism was co-opted by various state institutions and competing political groups, leading to a fragmentation of political authority.
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduate
dc.identifier.citationMusekamp, C. (2010). Negotiating Egyptian nationalism: Militant Islamist confrontations with the state and the fragmentation of political authority. Illumine, 9(1), 21–44. https://doi.org/10.18357/illumine9120107776
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.18357/illumine9120107776
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/23244
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIllumine
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.titleNegotiating Egyptian nationalism: Militant Islamist confrontations with the state and the fragmentation of political authority
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