Smashing Idols and the State: The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalism
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- belief systems-and-political-behavior
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 33 (1) , 3-35
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500016844
Abstract
Recent scholars of the Middle East have implicitly and suggestively noted similarities between contemporary Muslim activists and sixteenth-century Protestant reformers. A more explicit and rigorous argument comparing Protestantism and contemporary Sunni movements in Egypt can yield insights into both movements.Keywords
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