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Author Murphy, Caryle.

Title Passion for Islam : shaping the modern Middle East : the Egyptian experience / Caryle Murphy.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, [2002]
©2002

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  297.0962 M978P    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  297.0962 MU    Check Shelf
Description viii, 359 pages ; 24 cm
Contents First verses -- Withered dreams and "zucchini" by the bushel -- Pious Islam -- Personal awakenings -- Political Islam -- What kind of country are we going to be? -- The ghost -- Death of a lawyer -- Education, not revolution -- Guilty of practicing democracy -- Middle ground -- Cultural Islam -- A culture of our own, or Madonna and belly-dancing have to go -- Faith and modernity -- New thinking in Islam -- People of the Book -- We were here first -- One dream fulfilled, another denied -- The path ahead -- The promise and the passion.
Note "A Lisa Drew book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-337) and index.
Subject Islam and state -- Egypt -- 20th century.
Islam and politics -- Egypt -- 20th century.
Islam -- Social aspects -- Egypt -- 20th century.
Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1981-2011
Egypt -- Social conditions -- 1981-
Religious awakening -- Islam.
ISBN 0743235789
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