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A controversial figure during his lifetime, the legacy of Sa'd Zaghlul, leader of the Egyptian revolution of 1919, has been disputed since his death in 1927. Memorials to Zaghlul are found in the central squares of towns and cities across Egypt, yet his reputation as a national leader has suffered since the 1952 revolution. This book offers the first detailed account of his life, drawing upon a large array of sources in English and Arabic, including Zaghlul's complete memoirs, to chart his religious education at Al-Azhar, where he acquired his reformist ideals, his role in the 1882 revolution, and his move from modernist to nationalist. The book shows that Zaghlul was a revolutionary of a liberal type, contradicting much of the official British reportage or by his critics in the liberal press. His core principles were civic rights, equality before the law, freedom of religion, speech, and press, the separation of powers and an independent judiciary. Contrary to some narratives, the failure to realize these ideals was not that he was an oligarch or demagogue, but that conservative forces inside and outside Egypt mobilized against him and his followers after the 1919 revolution and during his prime ministership in 1924. With the Middle East continuing to be dominated by autocratic governments, the story of Zaghlul's rise and fall is timely, reminding us that then as now barriers to more representative, and thus accountable, government are not cultural, but political.
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Table of Contents
Part 1
1. Ibn al-Fellah
2. From al-Azhar to Revolution
3. Lawyer and Reformer
Part 2
4. In the Ministry
5. The Ministry and the Opposition
6. In the Opposition
Part 3
7. The Military Regime
8. Revolution
9. Spring turns to Winter in Paris
10. Talking with the Enemy
Part 4
11. Counter-Revolution
12. A Hero's Return
13. The Wafd Party Emerges
14. The People's Ministry
15. His Last Battle
16. Afterlife
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| Published | 21 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 264 |
| ISBN | 9780755651085 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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