Paul Sedra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1116664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Sedra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Sedra |
| SIGNATURE | SEDRA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1144-0573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Age of the Efendiyya
Relative to its importance in modern Egyptian history, the social and cultural formation known as the efendiyya has received strikingly little attention in recent historical scholarship. The men who proudly claimed the moniker efendi, and made up the efendiyya in collective terms, are often breezily labelled modern-educated or middle class by historians of Egypt, without a serious or sustained interrogation of their world-view—a gap in the histor…
Copts and the Millet Partnership
The sparse scholarship on the political role of Coptic Christians in modern Egypt almost always takes the Coptic Orthodox Church as a point of departure, assuming that the head of the church, the Coptic patriarch, is not only the spiritual leader of the community but its political leader as well. This article argues that the disproportionate attention afforded to the Coptic Orthodox Church in this scholarship has obscured intra-communal dynamics …
The Challenge of Political Islam
Book Review| December 01 2011 The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian StateScott, Rachel M.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010xiii + 277 pp., $65.00(cloth), $24.95(paper) Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 669–670. https://do…
Exposure to the eyes of God
Through a close analysis of the links between nineteenth-century Protestant missionary thought and the British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) this article suggests that to distinguish Enlightenment educational and social reform from evangelism is mistaken. Emblematic of the social reform projects which emerged in England as responses to the challenges of the French Revolution and rapid urbanisation, the BFSS was the outgrowth of Joseph Lancast…
The Great Social Laboratory
Book Review| May 01 2010 The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt Omnia El Shakry Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xiii + 328 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 15…
Writing the History of the Modern Copts
Scholars of Egyptian history and politics face a dearth of analytical studies of the modern Coptic Church and community. This state of affairs is due to various factors of a methodological, theoretical, and practical nature. In practical terms, both the Egyptian state and the Coptic Orthodox Church have discouraged exploration of Coptic identity given the political taboo of sectarianism. In theoretical terms, Edward Said's Orientalism led to conc…
The Struggle for Constitutional Power
Book Review| August 01 2008 The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt Tamir Moustafa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 x, 328 pp., $85.00 (cloth) Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 37…
Imagining an Imperial Race
Research Article| May 01 2004 Imagining an Imperial Race: Egyptology in the Service of Empire Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 251–263. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-251 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Sedra; Imagining an Imperial Race: Egyptology in the Service of Empir…
John Lieder and his Mission in Egypt
The English Church Missionary Society (CMS) dispatched a contingent of missionaries to Egypt in 1825. This article analyses the methods and impact of that contingent. The schools that the CMS missionaries introduced are cast not as vehicles of enlightenment — as is frequently the case in mission historiography — but as technologies of power. Specifically, the article recounts how the head of the mission, the Reverend John Lieder, deployed Lancast…
Class cleavages and ethnic conflict
Whereas the political claims of Egyptian Islamists have attracted much attention in Western media and scholarly circles, only rarely have such circles acknowledged the role played by ethno‐religious consciousness among Coptic Christians in Egyptian political life. This article analyzes the development of this consciousness through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the socio‐economic roots of ‘Coptist’ political action. Accorded p…
Class cleavages and ethnic conflict
Whereas the political claims of Egyptian Islamists have attracted much attention in Western media and scholarly circles, only rarely have such circles acknowledged the role played by ethno‐religious consciousness among Coptic Christians in Egyptian political life. This article analyzes the development of this consciousness through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the socio‐economic roots of ‘Coptist’ political action. Accorded p…
Writing the History of the Modern Copts
Scholars of Egyptian history and politics face a dearth of analytical studies of the modern Coptic Church and community. This state of affairs is due to various factors of a methodological, theoretical, and practical nature. In practical terms, both the Egyptian state and the Coptic Orthodox Church have discouraged exploration of Coptic identity given the political taboo of sectarianism. In theoretical terms, Edward Said's Orientalism led to conc…
The Great Social Laboratory
Book Review| May 01 2010 The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt Omnia El Shakry Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xiii + 328 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 15…
John Lieder and his Mission in Egypt
The English Church Missionary Society (CMS) dispatched a contingent of missionaries to Egypt in 1825. This article analyses the methods and impact of that contingent. The schools that the CMS missionaries introduced are cast not as vehicles of enlightenment — as is frequently the case in mission historiography — but as technologies of power. Specifically, the article recounts how the head of the mission, the Reverend John Lieder, deployed Lancast…
The Challenge of Political Islam
Book Review| December 01 2011 The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian StateScott, Rachel M.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010xiii + 277 pp., $65.00(cloth), $24.95(paper) Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 669–670. https://do…
Exposure to the eyes of God
Through a close analysis of the links between nineteenth-century Protestant missionary thought and the British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) this article suggests that to distinguish Enlightenment educational and social reform from evangelism is mistaken. Emblematic of the social reform projects which emerged in England as responses to the challenges of the French Revolution and rapid urbanisation, the BFSS was the outgrowth of Joseph Lancast…
Imagining an Imperial Race
Research Article| May 01 2004 Imagining an Imperial Race: Egyptology in the Service of Empire Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 251–263. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-251 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Sedra; Imagining an Imperial Race: Egyptology in the Service of Empir…
The Struggle for Constitutional Power
Book Review| August 01 2008 The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt Tamir Moustafa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 x, 328 pp., $85.00 (cloth) Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 37…
Class cleavages and ethnic conflict
Whereas the political claims of Egyptian Islamists have attracted much attention in Western media and scholarly circles, only rarely have such circles acknowledged the role played by ethno‐religious consciousness among Coptic Christians in Egyptian political life. This article analyzes the development of this consciousness through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the socio‐economic roots of ‘Coptist’ political action. Accorded p…
Imagining an Imperial Race
Research Article| May 01 2004 Imagining an Imperial Race: Egyptology in the Service of Empire Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 251–263. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-251 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Sedra; Imagining an Imperial Race: Egyptology in the Service of Empir…
John Lieder and his Mission in Egypt
The English Church Missionary Society (CMS) dispatched a contingent of missionaries to Egypt in 1825. This article analyses the methods and impact of that contingent. The schools that the CMS missionaries introduced are cast not as vehicles of enlightenment — as is frequently the case in mission historiography — but as technologies of power. Specifically, the article recounts how the head of the mission, the Reverend John Lieder, deployed Lancast…
The Struggle for Constitutional Power
Book Review| August 01 2008 The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt Tamir Moustafa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 x, 328 pp., $85.00 (cloth) Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 37…
Writing the History of the Modern Copts
Scholars of Egyptian history and politics face a dearth of analytical studies of the modern Coptic Church and community. This state of affairs is due to various factors of a methodological, theoretical, and practical nature. In practical terms, both the Egyptian state and the Coptic Orthodox Church have discouraged exploration of Coptic identity given the political taboo of sectarianism. In theoretical terms, Edward Said's Orientalism led to conc…
Exposure to the eyes of God
Through a close analysis of the links between nineteenth-century Protestant missionary thought and the British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) this article suggests that to distinguish Enlightenment educational and social reform from evangelism is mistaken. Emblematic of the social reform projects which emerged in England as responses to the challenges of the French Revolution and rapid urbanisation, the BFSS was the outgrowth of Joseph Lancast…
The Great Social Laboratory
Book Review| May 01 2010 The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt Omnia El Shakry Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xiii + 328 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 15…
The Challenge of Political Islam
Book Review| December 01 2011 The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian StateScott, Rachel M.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010xiii + 277 pp., $65.00(cloth), $24.95(paper) Paul Sedra Paul Sedra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 669–670. https://do…
Copts and the Millet Partnership
The sparse scholarship on the political role of Coptic Christians in modern Egypt almost always takes the Coptic Orthodox Church as a point of departure, assuming that the head of the church, the Coptic patriarch, is not only the spiritual leader of the community but its political leader as well. This article argues that the disproportionate attention afforded to the Coptic Orthodox Church in this scholarship has obscured intra-communal dynamics …
The Age of the Efendiyya
Relative to its importance in modern Egyptian history, the social and cultural formation known as the efendiyya has received strikingly little attention in recent historical scholarship. The men who proudly claimed the moniker efendi, and made up the efendiyya in collective terms, are often breezily labelled modern-educated or middle class by historians of Egypt, without a serious or sustained interrogation of their world-view—a gap in the histor…
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