'Public Islam' and the Nation-State in Egypt

Abstract

A growing body of scholarly work is devoting attention to how Muslim traditions articulate notions that might fit the standards of a modern polity. This research focus calls into question the extent to which such notions become ingrained in the norms of modern public spheres, which represent the communicative and legitimizing basis of potentially democratic political systems. The reconfiguration of the normative discourses and the institutional footing of Islamic 'reform' movements in the framework of public spheres can be termed 'public Islam'.