Contemporary Islamic Political Thought in Egypt

This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism. Ebtisam Aly Hussein uses the framework of ''meta-languages'', in relation to the writings of these two particular Islamic intellectuals, to examine how authority over the public sphere is e...