Egypt From Monarchy To Republic: A Reassessment Of Revolution And Change

Egypt's political experience - the 1952 revolution as an expression of the historical heritage, P.J. Vatikiotis; the continuity of the Egyptian state and the ambiguity of the revolution, Gabriel Ben-Dor; Islam and the state - pragmatism and growing commitment, Michael Winter; reflections on the extent of Egypt's revolution - socioeconomic indicators, John Waterbury; from laissez faire to soft revolution - birth rates, saving patterns and economic strength, Gad G. Gilbar; agricultural cooperatives - continuity and change in rural Egypt, James B. Mayfield; foreign capital, foreign communities and the Egyptian revolution of 1952, Robert L. Tignor; Copts and other minorities in the development of the Egyptian nation-state, Thomas Philipp; the seeming duality - patterns of interpersonal relations in a changing environment, Rivka Yadlin; continuity and innovation in Egyptian Islam - the Ulama vis-a-vis the militants, Hava Lazarus-Yafeh; from Banna to Qutb and Qutbism - the radicalization of the fundamentalist thought under three regimes, Olivier Carre; liberalism - from monarchy to post-revolution, Shimon Shamir; an intellectual source for the revolution - Tawfiq al-Hakim's influence on Nasser and his generation, Israel Gershoni; Egyptian intellectuals and the revolution - the case of 'Abd al-Rahman al-Rafi'i, Jack A. Crabbs, Jr; journalists and the press - the vicissitudes of licensed pluralism, Ami Ayalon; a revolution prefigured - foreign policy orientations in the postwar years, Eran Lerman; the Sudan's path to independence - continuity and change in Egypt's policy toward the Sudan, Garbiel Warburg; Egypt and the Palestine question before and after the revolution, Itamar Rabinovich.

An examination of the extent to which Nasser's 1952 coup d'etat brought about significant changes in the basic social, political and cultural structures of Egypt.