Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS’s rise in 2014, Egypt’s
Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage
of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the
din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives
of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession
to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with
the routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living
together under the modern nation-state. Â Drawing on years of
extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular
saints as material media that organize social relations between
Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With
an ethnographer’s eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how
long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of
revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred
territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A
study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political
Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of
minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully
reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the
Arab Muslim world.
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