2019 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 1-32
This essay aims to reveal the relationship between religion, freedom, and nation state powers in the early constitutional kingdom Era in Egypt. To do so, the author investigates the historical processes that resulted in Ṭāhā Ḥusayn being banished from public office by mainly analyzing parliamentary records. In conclusion, the state powers that intervened into issues of religion and freedom cannot simply be regarded as secular political applications of state power. The form of such powers can vary according to perceptions of religion, morals, order, and law, the 1923 constitution, and the relation between state authorities. This presents a complicated image of the relationship between religion and politics in Egypt that transcends the simplistic framework by which the two were considered either segregated or unsegregated.
