The liberatory sentiment that stoked the Arab Spring and saw the
ousting of long-time Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak seems a
distant memory. Democratically elected president Mohammad Morsi
lasted only a year before he was forced from power to be replaced
by precisely the kind of authoritarianism protestors had been
railing against in January 2011. Paradoxically, this turn of events
was encouraged by the same liberal activists and intelligentsia
who'd pushed for progressive reform under Mubarak. This volume
analyses how such a key contingent of Egyptian liberals came to
develop outright illiberal tendencies. Interdisciplinary in scope,
it brings together experts in Middle East studies, political
science, philosophy, Islamic studies and law to address the failure
of Egyptian liberalism in a holistic manner - from liberalism's
relationship with the state, to its role in cultivating civil
society, to the role of Islam and secularism in the cultivation of
liberalism. A work of impeccable scholarly rigour, Egypt and the
Contradictions of Liberalism reveals the contemporary ramifications
of the state of liberalism in Egypt.
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