ABSTRACT
In Chapters 6-9, I will analyse some modern Egyptian authors’ employment of the term in the light of modern European discourses of conscience focused on autonomy
authenticity and freedom rights (as laid out in Section 3.4). But I will also read them as modern reappropriations of Islamic anthropology and ethics. My hypothesis will be that in the process of coining a concept of conscience by way of the word both Islamic and Christian-European impulses were at work.
