Motherland Lost: the Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity

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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword by Fouad Ajami and Charles Hill; Foreword by Charles Hill; Acknowledgments; A Note on Names and Dates; Chronology; Introduction; One: Sons of Saint Mark; Two: Under the Banner of Islam; Three: Corsican General, Albanian Commander; Four: What Is Modernity Anyway?; Five: We the ...? Forming a National Identity; Six: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Age; Seven: Pharaohs and Titans; Conclusion: The Bitterness of Leaving, the Peril of Staying; Bibliography; About the Author.;Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of Copts?the native Egyptian Christians?and their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it faced its own struggles with modernity. He argues that the modern plight of Copts is inseparable from the crisis of modernity and the answers developed to address that crisis by the Egyptian state and intellectuals, as well as by the Coptic Church and laypeople.