{"id":36031,"date":"2025-08-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/?post_type=article&#038;p=36031"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:57:00","slug":"the-politics-of-family-laws-in-egypt-and-tunisia-a-comparative-study-of-state-religion-relations","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/the-politics-of-family-laws-in-egypt-and-tunisia-a-comparative-study-of-state-religion-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Family Laws in Egypt and Tunisia: A Comparative Study of State-Religion Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Abstract<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Egypt and Tunisia share many historical, cultural and political commonalities, yet their state-religion arrangements differ markedly, particularly regarding the scope of religious reference in family laws. The existing literature is shaped by two dominant paradigms: secularization theory, which stresses the differences (reformist policies in Tunisia versus conservative tendencies in Egypt), and Talal Asad&#8217;s postcolonial critique (2003), which instead emphasises the structural similarities, as the modern secular state intervenes in and controls the religious field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article moves beyond both frameworks by proposing a &#8220;Contextual Political Analysis&#8221;: it shows that historical settlements, elite interests, legal and institutional change and power balances are the decisive variables shaping state-religion relations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This study by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/chercheur\/gamal-mohamed\/?lang=en\"><strong>Mohamed Gamal Ali<\/strong><\/a> appeared in <em>Contemporary Arab Affairs<\/em> (vol. 18, no. 3, Brill, 2025).<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":36036,"template":"","class_list":["post-36031","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"date_tournage":"2025-08-25","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Politics of Family Laws in Egypt and Tunisia: A Comparative Study of State-Religion Relations - Pluriel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/the-politics-of-family-laws-in-egypt-and-tunisia-a-comparative-study-of-state-religion-relations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Politics of Family Laws in Egypt and Tunisia: A Comparative Study of State-Religion Relations - Pluriel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abstract Egypt and Tunisia share many historical, cultural and political commonalities, yet their state-religion arrangements differ markedly, particularly regarding the scope of religious reference in family laws. 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