Surviving Repression: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the 2013 Coup By Lucia Ardovini. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. 168 pp., £ 80.00, cloth, ISBN 978-1-5261-4929-9.

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the dignitary harm in being told that following your faith is illegal is also real, and like Koppelman, I think that in much of America today, businesses would lose customers if they chose to post such signs. Gill “accedes to narrow exemptions” if they are limited to “a small number” of providers (185), and Koppelman’s proposed compromise might well make the numbers of shops refusing service less, not more common. Or, admittedly, it might not. The furious militancy of many contemporary American religious traditionalists may prove too incendiary to be cooled by compromises. It may be wiser to pursue policies of Lockean formal neutrality almost exclusively, which was, ironically, the stance of both 19th century American law and the late Justice Antonin Scalia, even though today’s conservative justices berate it as novel liberal imperialism. The issues Emily Gill addresses are genuinely difficult and genuinely urgent, and all who seek answers to them can benefit greatly from her conscientious and insightful reflections.