ABSTRACT
Modern nationalist concepts first found expression in Egypt in the 1860s and 1870s. The supremacy of Egyptian territorial nationalism through most of the interwar period was expressed in realms besides the political. The main change in relation to nationalist concepts in Egypt between 1914 and the mid-1930s was the fading of visible Islamic political loyalties which occurred from World War I onwards. The supremacy of Egyptian territorial nationalism through most of the interwar period was expressed in realms besides the political. The main change in relation to nationalist concepts in Egypt between 1914 and the mid-1930s was the fading of visible Islamic political loyalties which occurred from World War I onwards. For nationalist sentiment to become manifest and tangible a referent is often useful: an issue or institution about which opinion can find expression and, in the process of expression, feed itself and grow.
