Classless Politics - Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt

Classless Politics offers a counterintuitive account of the relationship between neoliberal economics and Islamist politics in Egypt. Hesham Sallam examines why Islamist movements have gained support at the expense of the left, even amid conflicts over the costs of economic reforms.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction. More Identity, Less Class: Paths to Classless Politics
1. Inheriting Nasser’s Debts: The Rise and Fall of the Nasserist Social Pact
2. Islamist Incorporation in the State of Science and Faith
3. Sadat’s Brothers: Islamist Incorporation and the Autonomous Path
4. Nasser’s Comrades: State Guardianship and the Dependent Path
5. Islamist Incorporation, National Identity, and the Left: A Tale of Two Comrades
Conclusion. Reflections on the Legacies of Islamist Incorporation and the Post-Mubarak Politics
Appendix I. The Theoretical Argument, Key Concepts, and Central Assumptions
Appendix II. Critical Junctures and Path-Dependent Institutional Patterns
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Hesham Sallam is a research scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, where he also serves as the associate director of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy. He is the editor of Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections, 2011–2012: A Critical Guide to a Changing Political Arena (2013), coeditor of Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World (2022), and a coeditor of the ezine Jadaliyya.

Summary

Classless Politics offers a counterintuitive account of the relationship between neoliberal economics and Islamist politics in Egypt. Hesham Sallam examines why Islamist movements have gained support at the expense of the left, even amid conflicts over the costs of economic reforms.

Product details

• Authors: Hesham Sallam
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780231203258
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20325-8
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Islam, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Egypt, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Religion & politics, Revolutionary groups & movements, Religion and Politics, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt, political science; history; religion