Abstract
This paper reevaluates the relationship between religion and politics in the early era of the Constitutional Kingdom of Egypt through analyses of perceptions or interpretations among the 1923 constitutional committee members about the relationship between the nation-state, freedom and religion.
It is concluded that religious considerations were found in the discussions of the constitutional committee members even though its goal was to establish the nation-state and the equal citizens under law. And freedom stipulated in articles of the 1923 constitution was reinterpreted and regulated by the constitutional committee members taking Islam, the religion of the majority, into consideration. This essay can present an image of the relationship between religion and politics in the Constitutional Kingdom of Egypt beyond the framework of regarding it just as being segregated or unsegregated.
