Limor Lavie, The Battle over a ’Civil State’: Egypt’s Road to June 30, 2013 (Albany: SUNY Press, 2018)
This book traces the major milestones in the development of the civil state (Dawla Madaniyya) concept, and the transformations it underwent as it gained currency among rival sectors in Egypt: liberals and Islamists; regime circles, oppositionist circles and civil society, the Muslim majority and the Coptic minority. It examines its impact on the Egyptian political scene in light of historical processes in the country, in the region and in the world that affected its development, stressing that the struggle over Egypt’s civil character in the post-Mubarak era was the main reason for the turbulence the country had experienced in June 30, 2013 – the ouster of President Muhammad Mursi by the Armed Forces.
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6586-the-battle-over-a-civil-state.aspx