Limor Lavie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1155611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Limor Lavie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Limor |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavie |
| SIGNATURE | LAVIE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0834-9488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Pluralism to Autocracy
Existing scholarship has analyzed Tunisia’s 2022 Constitution primarily as an instrument of hyper-presidentialism, democratic breakdown, and authoritarian restoration. Bringing together the literature on authoritarian constitutionalism and religion–state relations, this article suggests that constitutional identity clauses constitute an additional, largely overlooked dimension of Tunisia’s neo-authoritarian transformation. Through a comparative a…
Post- Wilāyat al-Faqīh
This article examines how contemporary Arab Shiʿi intellectuals engage with the concept of the “civil state” ( dawla madaniyya ), a model of governance that seeks to balance religious values with civic principles. While research has largely focused on Sunni contexts, this study foregrounds how Shiʿi thinkers, drawing on Sunni precedents and distinctive Shiʿi traditions, grasp and deploy the concept in response to political and doctrinal tensions.…
Conflict, Hegemony and Ideology in the Mutual Translation of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literatures, written by Mahmoud Kayyal
Devotion to the Administrative State
Mona Oraby’s Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt addresses a subject largely overlooked in scholarship on contemporary Egypt and often obscured in domestic public discourse: the administrative and legal struggles of religious minorities—particularly Copts and Baháʾís—who seek official recognition of a religious status that falls outside the state’s rigid confessional categories, whether due to conversion, retu…
Cold peace in translation
From pharaoh to hero
Mapping Egyptian Translations of Israeli Literatures
This study delves into the intricate realm of Egyptian translations of Hebrew and Israeli literatures, illuminating the various attitudes of the Egyptian government, intellectual elite, and educated populace toward cultural normalization with Israel. Analyzing a corpus of over a hundred translations spanning different genres, this research outlines turning points in the evolution of translation practices from the establishment of Israel to the pr…
Allies or foes
This paper examines the relationship between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) following the 2011 Egyptianuprising. While the interplay between them in the pre-revolutionary period was mostly shaped by the gap between the status of al-Azhar as a body of statist Islam and the MB as a dissident Islamist movement, Mubarak's downfall yielded a change in their status, raising the question of its effect on their attitude toward one another. Thou…
Egyptian State Media in Opposition
Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of opinion columns in the Egyptian state newspaper Al-Ahram during Mohamed Morsi's 2012???13 presidency, this article argues that columnists substantially shifted to critical commentary on government policies and advanced an oppositional political agenda. Seeking to delegitimize the Muslim Brotherhood, the newspaper's columns continued to promote the worldview of the non-Islamist elite that had been …
The Ambiguity of the Quest for Mastership of the World
This article examines the idea of ustāḏiyyat al-ʿālam (mastership of the world), in the political thought of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Ustāḏiyyat al-ʿālam was formulated by the movements' founder, Ḥasan al-Bannā, as the ultimate goal of the MB, the last of a gradual seven-stage plan to Islamize the individual, the family, society, the government, and the state, and restore the caliphate. In an attempt to unpack this abstract concept, this arti…
De-Theocratizing the State? The Debate over the Civil State ( Dawla Madaniyya ) Model in Saudi Arabia
Since the Arab uprisings, the ambiguous notion of a civil state (dawla madaniyya) has been gaining a foothold in many Arab states as the ideal state model, at the official and popular levels. Even Saudi Arabia has heard voices advocating a civil state. Whereas such voices were evident in critical newspaper columns, which raised countercriticism by the Saudi religious orthodoxy during the 2000s and 2010s, recently Crown Prince Muḥammad bin Salmān …
The Relationship between the State and the New Media in Egypt
This article offers a new perspective on the extensive discussion of the role of new media in facilitating the 2011 Egyptian uprising by placing it within the historical context of how the state responded to new media in the previous decades. This article uses an archaeological analysis of state media to reveal how the state coped with the news media (newspapers, radio, television, satellite television) in the past to infer the present relationsh…
Distancing Religion from State
Legitimation in post-revolutionary Egypt
Drawing from scholarship on authoritarian adaptation and on insight from legitimacy theory, we seek to examine to what degree the renewal of authoritarianism under 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in post-revolutionary Egypt can be understood as the establishment of a new political order with its own patterns of legitimation. The main focus of the discussion is al-Sisi's adaptation of legitimization strategies designed to justify his rule and ensure stabil…
Lessening Anti-Jewish Hate Speech in Service of the Egyptian Regime
This article aims a spotlight at an unusual chapter in the development of the Egyptian regimes' policy toward antisemitism in the state media. While the various regimes allowed anti-Jewish speech in the governmental media since its nationalization by the Nasserite regime and used it for acquiring legitimacy, this article points to a different policy adopted by the Mubārak regime, following 11 September 2001. From the end of 2002, the Egyptian reg…
The Constitutionalization of the Civil State
This paper offers a contextualized analysis of the way in which three Islamic constitutions-in Egypt (2014/2019), Tunisia (2014), and Yemen (2015)-came to a similar self-declaration of a "civil state" (dawla madaniyya), following the Arab uprisings. This self-expressive proclamation, which did not exist in their former constitutions, nor in any other constitution worldwide, is the product of the ongoing internal struggles of Muslim societies over…
Consensus vs. dissensus over the ‘civil state’ model
The ‘Jasmine Revolution’ that toppled Tunisian president Zine al-‘Abidine Ben ‘Ali on 14 January 2011, and the 25 January 2011 uprising that toppled Egyptian President Husni Mubarak had similar characteristics yet different outcomes. While the Tunisian experience led to democratization and to a non-violent transfer of power, the Egyptian one led to a reversion to authoritarianism through a military coup and to bloodshed. This paper suggests that …
The Battle over a Civil State
The Battle over a Civil State
The Egyptian Muslim Brothers’ ideal state model
This article examines the change in the discourse of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt regarding the model of a civil state. It outlines a transition in the doctrine of the movement from an all-Islamic state to a modern nation state with Western norms and institutions. The paper traces milestones in the process that led to the acceptance of the civil model into the Muslim Brothers’ rhetoric and political platform albeit a creative interpretation of th…
The Idea of the Civil State in Egypt
The model of the “civil state” ( dawla madaniyya ) occupies a central place in the public debate over the character of Egypt following the January 25 Revolution of 2011. The demand to establish a civil state was ostensibly shared by all the political currents in Egypt. However, when these currents attempted to set out agreed-upon guidelines for Egypt’s future, it soon became clear that they were far from a consensus, and that defining the civil s…
Consensus vs. dissensus over the ‘civil state’ model
The ‘Jasmine Revolution’ that toppled Tunisian president Zine al-‘Abidine Ben ‘Ali on 14 January 2011, and the 25 January 2011 uprising that toppled Egyptian President Husni Mubarak had similar characteristics yet different outcomes. While the Tunisian experience led to democratization and to a non-violent transfer of power, the Egyptian one led to a reversion to authoritarianism through a military coup and to bloodshed. This paper suggests that …
The Constitutionalization of the Civil State
This paper offers a contextualized analysis of the way in which three Islamic constitutions-in Egypt (2014/2019), Tunisia (2014), and Yemen (2015)-came to a similar self-declaration of a "civil state" (dawla madaniyya), following the Arab uprisings. This self-expressive proclamation, which did not exist in their former constitutions, nor in any other constitution worldwide, is the product of the ongoing internal struggles of Muslim societies over…
The Egyptian Muslim Brothers’ ideal state model
This article examines the change in the discourse of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt regarding the model of a civil state. It outlines a transition in the doctrine of the movement from an all-Islamic state to a modern nation state with Western norms and institutions. The paper traces milestones in the process that led to the acceptance of the civil model into the Muslim Brothers’ rhetoric and political platform albeit a creative interpretation of th…
The Idea of the Civil State in Egypt
The model of the “civil state” ( dawla madaniyya ) occupies a central place in the public debate over the character of Egypt following the January 25 Revolution of 2011. The demand to establish a civil state was ostensibly shared by all the political currents in Egypt. However, when these currents attempted to set out agreed-upon guidelines for Egypt’s future, it soon became clear that they were far from a consensus, and that defining the civil s…
Distancing Religion from State
Legitimation in post-revolutionary Egypt
Drawing from scholarship on authoritarian adaptation and on insight from legitimacy theory, we seek to examine to what degree the renewal of authoritarianism under 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in post-revolutionary Egypt can be understood as the establishment of a new political order with its own patterns of legitimation. The main focus of the discussion is al-Sisi's adaptation of legitimization strategies designed to justify his rule and ensure stabil…
The Egyptian Muslim Brothers’ ideal state model
This article examines the change in the discourse of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt regarding the model of a civil state. It outlines a transition in the doctrine of the movement from an all-Islamic state to a modern nation state with Western norms and institutions. The paper traces milestones in the process that led to the acceptance of the civil model into the Muslim Brothers’ rhetoric and political platform albeit a creative interpretation of th…
The Idea of the Civil State in Egypt
The model of the “civil state” ( dawla madaniyya ) occupies a central place in the public debate over the character of Egypt following the January 25 Revolution of 2011. The demand to establish a civil state was ostensibly shared by all the political currents in Egypt. However, when these currents attempted to set out agreed-upon guidelines for Egypt’s future, it soon became clear that they were far from a consensus, and that defining the civil s…
The Battle over a Civil State
The Battle over a Civil State
Consensus vs. dissensus over the ‘civil state’ model
The ‘Jasmine Revolution’ that toppled Tunisian president Zine al-‘Abidine Ben ‘Ali on 14 January 2011, and the 25 January 2011 uprising that toppled Egyptian President Husni Mubarak had similar characteristics yet different outcomes. While the Tunisian experience led to democratization and to a non-violent transfer of power, the Egyptian one led to a reversion to authoritarianism through a military coup and to bloodshed. This paper suggests that …
Legitimation in post-revolutionary Egypt
Drawing from scholarship on authoritarian adaptation and on insight from legitimacy theory, we seek to examine to what degree the renewal of authoritarianism under 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in post-revolutionary Egypt can be understood as the establishment of a new political order with its own patterns of legitimation. The main focus of the discussion is al-Sisi's adaptation of legitimization strategies designed to justify his rule and ensure stabil…
Lessening Anti-Jewish Hate Speech in Service of the Egyptian Regime
This article aims a spotlight at an unusual chapter in the development of the Egyptian regimes' policy toward antisemitism in the state media. While the various regimes allowed anti-Jewish speech in the governmental media since its nationalization by the Nasserite regime and used it for acquiring legitimacy, this article points to a different policy adopted by the Mubārak regime, following 11 September 2001. From the end of 2002, the Egyptian reg…
The Constitutionalization of the Civil State
This paper offers a contextualized analysis of the way in which three Islamic constitutions-in Egypt (2014/2019), Tunisia (2014), and Yemen (2015)-came to a similar self-declaration of a "civil state" (dawla madaniyya), following the Arab uprisings. This self-expressive proclamation, which did not exist in their former constitutions, nor in any other constitution worldwide, is the product of the ongoing internal struggles of Muslim societies over…
De-Theocratizing the State? The Debate over the Civil State ( Dawla Madaniyya ) Model in Saudi Arabia
Since the Arab uprisings, the ambiguous notion of a civil state (dawla madaniyya) has been gaining a foothold in many Arab states as the ideal state model, at the official and popular levels. Even Saudi Arabia has heard voices advocating a civil state. Whereas such voices were evident in critical newspaper columns, which raised countercriticism by the Saudi religious orthodoxy during the 2000s and 2010s, recently Crown Prince Muḥammad bin Salmān …
The Relationship between the State and the New Media in Egypt
This article offers a new perspective on the extensive discussion of the role of new media in facilitating the 2011 Egyptian uprising by placing it within the historical context of how the state responded to new media in the previous decades. This article uses an archaeological analysis of state media to reveal how the state coped with the news media (newspapers, radio, television, satellite television) in the past to infer the present relationsh…
Distancing Religion from State
Allies or foes
This paper examines the relationship between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) following the 2011 Egyptianuprising. While the interplay between them in the pre-revolutionary period was mostly shaped by the gap between the status of al-Azhar as a body of statist Islam and the MB as a dissident Islamist movement, Mubarak's downfall yielded a change in their status, raising the question of its effect on their attitude toward one another. Thou…
Egyptian State Media in Opposition
Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of opinion columns in the Egyptian state newspaper Al-Ahram during Mohamed Morsi's 2012???13 presidency, this article argues that columnists substantially shifted to critical commentary on government policies and advanced an oppositional political agenda. Seeking to delegitimize the Muslim Brotherhood, the newspaper's columns continued to promote the worldview of the non-Islamist elite that had been …
The Ambiguity of the Quest for Mastership of the World
This article examines the idea of ustāḏiyyat al-ʿālam (mastership of the world), in the political thought of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Ustāḏiyyat al-ʿālam was formulated by the movements' founder, Ḥasan al-Bannā, as the ultimate goal of the MB, the last of a gradual seven-stage plan to Islamize the individual, the family, society, the government, and the state, and restore the caliphate. In an attempt to unpack this abstract concept, this arti…
From pharaoh to hero
Mapping Egyptian Translations of Israeli Literatures
This study delves into the intricate realm of Egyptian translations of Hebrew and Israeli literatures, illuminating the various attitudes of the Egyptian government, intellectual elite, and educated populace toward cultural normalization with Israel. Analyzing a corpus of over a hundred translations spanning different genres, this research outlines turning points in the evolution of translation practices from the establishment of Israel to the pr…
Conflict, Hegemony and Ideology in the Mutual Translation of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literatures, written by Mahmoud Kayyal
Devotion to the Administrative State
Mona Oraby’s Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt addresses a subject largely overlooked in scholarship on contemporary Egypt and often obscured in domestic public discourse: the administrative and legal struggles of religious minorities—particularly Copts and Baháʾís—who seek official recognition of a religious status that falls outside the state’s rigid confessional categories, whether due to conversion, retu…
Cold peace in translation
From Pluralism to Autocracy
Existing scholarship has analyzed Tunisia’s 2022 Constitution primarily as an instrument of hyper-presidentialism, democratic breakdown, and authoritarian restoration. Bringing together the literature on authoritarian constitutionalism and religion–state relations, this article suggests that constitutional identity clauses constitute an additional, largely overlooked dimension of Tunisia’s neo-authoritarian transformation. Through a comparative a…
Post- Wilāyat al-Faqīh
This article examines how contemporary Arab Shiʿi intellectuals engage with the concept of the “civil state” ( dawla madaniyya ), a model of governance that seeks to balance religious values with civic principles. While research has largely focused on Sunni contexts, this study foregrounds how Shiʿi thinkers, drawing on Sunni precedents and distinctive Shiʿi traditions, grasp and deploy the concept in response to political and doctrinal tensions.…
Political science (16 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Islamic Studies and History (9 works) · State (computer science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Islam (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (7 works)