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Inside the Muslim Brotherhood provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization's identity, organization, and activism in Egypt since 1981. It explains the Brotherhood's durability and its ability to persist in spite of regime repression and exclusion over the past three decades.
List of contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note on Transliteration
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Unpacking the Brotherhood
- 2. Debating Islamism and Theorizing the Brotherhood
- 3. Constructing Islamic Collective Identity
- 4. Power of the Jama'a: The Enduring Legacy of Hasan al-Banna
- 5. Chasing the Prey: The Brotherhood's Art of Recruitment
- 6. Tarbiyya and Consolidating the Brotherhood's Identity
- 7. The Brotherhood's Organization, Structure, and Ideology
- 8. Ikhwanism: The Brotherhood's Code of Identity
- 9. Enforced Coherence: The Brotherhood under Regime Repression
- 10. Conclusion
- Index
About the author
Khalil al-Anani is Associate Professor at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar. He previously taught at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Georgetown University, George Washington University, and George Mason University. He is co-editor (with Mahmoud Hamad) of Elections and Democratization in the Middle East (2014).
Summary
Inside the Muslim Brotherhood provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization's identity, organization, and activism in Egypt since 1981. It explains the Brotherhood's durability and its ability to persist in spite of regime repression and exclusion over the past three decades.
Additional text
Interviews with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, internal documents, and detailed knowledge of the movement's long history make up the rich resources of this book. Khalil al-Anani discusses all of the above in a lucid prose informed by social movement theory, social psychology, and the sociology of religion. In the process, he provides us with one of the most useful books on one of the most important Islamic movements in a century. Unlike so much else that has been published on the Brotherhood recently, readers here will find a composed treatment that does not lose the larger portrait in the heat of the moment.
