The Road to Revolution: Egyptian Identity, Islam, and the Struggle to Create an Islamic Democracy
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2012
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Haverford College. Department of Religion
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This thesis explores the context upon which the revolution that begins in Egypt on January 25, 2011 is the culmination of the people’s frustrations with the political violence that not only in the physical sense, but also directed toward Islam. Since the 1970s Egypt has been the center of Islamic social activism, which has created a more religious society among the Egyptian people but has created a “seculareligious” state. This new form of political interaction with religious life in Egypt is the result of the country’s history with Colonialism and how orientalist ideas toward Islam and its relationship to democracy, have defined the county’s current political system. This culminates with the revolution in January 2011 with the elimination of the old democracy in attempt to form an Islamic democracy.