Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

A wide-ranging account of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan and its ideological and behavioural development since its founding in 1945.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. Sunni Islamic political thought until the twentieth century; 2. The early Muslim Brotherhood's political thought; 3. The Muslim Brotherhood's behaviour in the Jordanian context; Part II. Divisions: 4. Ideological divisions on the state; 5. Ideological divisions on political participation; 6. Ideological unity on societal rights and freedoms; Conclusion.

About the author

Joas Wagemakers is Associate Professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Utrecht University. He has published extensively on Islamist ideology and Islamic movements, including A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (2012) and Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietist Community (2016), which won the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in 2017.

Summary

A wide-ranging account of the Muslim Brotherhood's long history and complex relationship with the Jordanian state, parliament and society since its founding in 1945, showing the ideological and behavioural development of a group which relies on age-old concepts derived from classical Islam to influence beliefs in the modern-day nation-state.

Additional text

'Joas Wagamakers is already regarded as a premier scholar of Salafism and other aspects of Islamism, but this book will only add to his record. This book will deservedly be seen as one of the definitive works on the Muslim Brotherhood, on Islamism, and on Jordan for years to come.' Curtis R. Ryan, Appalachian State University

Product details

• Authors: Joas Wagemakers, Joas (Universiteit Utrecht Wagemakers, Wagemakers Joas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781108839655
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83965-5
• No. of pages: 325
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Jordan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Political structures: democracy, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Political subversion, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, Demonstrations & protest movements, Political Manifestos, Political parties and party platforms, Religious & theocratic ideologies