The Muslim BrotherhoodThe Muslim Brotherhood
How the Muslim Brotherhood rose to power in Egypt, and what it means for the Islamic world
Following the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood achieved a level of influence previously unimaginable. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's rise and dramatic fall for the future of democratic governance, peace, and stability in the region are disputed and remain open to debate. Drawing on more than one hundred in-depth interviews as well as Arabic-language sources never before accessed by Western researchers, Carrie Rosefsky Wickham traces the evolution of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from its founding in 1928 to the fall of Hosni Mubarak and the watershed elections of 2011-2012. Highlighting elements of movement continuity and change, Wickham demonstrates that shifts in Islamist worldviews, goals, and strategies are not the result of a single strand of cause and effect, and provides a systematic, fine-grained account of Islamist group evolution in Egypt and the wider Arab world.
In a new afterword, Wickham discusses what has happened in Egypt since Muhammad Morsi was ousted and the Muslim Brotherhood fell from power.
This book is a reprint of the one published in 2013, and has a new afterword of events since Mohammed Mursi and the fall of the Brotherhood from power. Wickham draws from 124 interviews between 2004 to 2011, with Islamist and secular civic and political activists, academics, and journalists in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Kuwait, a number of Islamist leaders in Egypt as well as scores of Arabic-language primary source documents, books, research reports, and media articles, many never accessed by other Western researchers. With academic interest and research dating from 1990, the Arab-speaking Wickham presents a complete and persuasive account of the evolution of the Brotherhood (est. 1928), which includes inconsistencies, ambiguities, and contradictions which are vital to the narrative, and forces the confrontation of the limits of knowledge exposed by the dimensions of internal group dynamics. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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- Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2013.
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