Egypt’s successful struggle over ownership of the Suez Canal under President Gamal ʿAbd al-Nasser in 1956 is usually seen as pivotal in the history of decolonization. Scholars have written about how the Suez War brought many of the classical themes of decolonization into focus, such as sovereignty over natural resources, the hegemony of the new Cold War order, the rise of popular anti-colonial nationalism and the international politics of development. But what about freedom? Freedom is both a political and a theological concept. Scholars of decolonization have dealt with its political aspects, but they have yet to make sense of the theological, wherein the struggle for freedom results in the sacralization of the political sphere. Conceived as a deep study of freedom during decolonization, this article engages the field of political theology to examine how an organization of the politics of liberation that was founded on the imagination of the sacred became an article of faith that shaped everyday life for millions of people around the Arab world and the Global South.

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革命的非殖民化与神圣的形成：埃及的案例

埃及在 1956 年总统加迈勒·阿卜杜勒·纳赛尔领导下对苏伊士运河所有权的成功斗争通常被视为非殖民化历史上的关键。学者们写过苏伊士战争如何使许多经典的非殖民化主题成为焦点，例如对自然资源的主权、新冷战秩序的霸权、大众反殖民民族主义的兴起和国际发展政治。但是自由呢？自由既是一个政治概念，也是一个神学概念。非殖民化的学者已经处理了它的政治方面，但他们还没有理解神学，其中争取自由的斗争导致政治领域的神圣化。被认为是对非殖民化期间自由的深入研究，