La Nahḍa come tradizione radicale: Salāma Mūsā e la nascita del socialismo in Egitto

In this article I will present part of the ‘socialist’ works by Egyptian Coptic intellectual Salāma Mūsā (1887-1958), whose personal and political trajectory is arguably exemplary. Indeed, Mūsā’s work lies at the intersection of multiple debates of the early 20th century: the Egyptian national debate, the pan-Arab and the global radical one. In particular, the article will look at Mūsā's role in the blooming debate on Socialism in Egypt and in the Arab East in the 1910s, as well as at his part in the establishment of the Egyptian Socialist Party in the early 1920s.