Michael Ezekiel Gasper Power of Representation sku-10145826

The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt is a hardcover in Middle Eastern History Books by Michael Ezekiel Gasper, sku-10145826. It traces the formation of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s.

Gasper examines how urban teachers, lawyers, engineers, clerks, accountants and journalists drew on ideas about Egypt's peasant population to form a sense of Egyptian identity. He argues that religious and secular thought were intertwined, connecting Islamic modernism with political questions and the formation of modern Egyptian social and cultural life.