The Muslim Brotherhood is the most significant and enduring
Sunni Islamist organization of the contemporary era. Its roots lay
in the Middle East but today it is both a local and global
movement. Under the slogan that "Islam is the solution" the Muslim
Brotherhood and its ideologues have impacted on the political
evolution of the region. The Muslim Brotherhood is variously
regarded as a true force for moderation among Islamists or a facade
behind which lies a terroristic fundamentalist threat which could
undermine global security agendas. The Arab Spring has brought the
Muslim Brotherhood to the fore of regional politics once more. The
face of the Brotherhood and its ambitions are slowly being realised
as state-based power is re-ordered across the Middle East.
The book will examine the genesis and evolution of the Muslim
Brotherhood in the Middle East with chapters devoted to specific
cases and localities where the Brotherhood and its ideas have made
and are making important impacts on society, the state and
politics. Within these chapters the author will assess in detail
the dynamics of particular themes of Islamist politics associated
with the Brotherhood such as democracy, equality, pan-Islamism,
radicalism, violence, reform, the Palestine issue and gender. This
will reveal an evolutionary trend within the movement since its
founding in Egypt in 1928 to its manifestation as the largest Sunni
Islamist movement in the Middle East in the 21st century. Drawing
on a wide range of sources and interviews with the leaders and
cadres this book presents an evolving standpoint of a newly
resurgent movement that is significantly organised to take the
opportunities for power and electoral competition offered by the
Arab Spring.
The book will also question whether the Muslim Brotherhood can
demonstrate to its sceptics that an accommodation with democracy
and the presence of a secular trend within the region can be made.
The book will also be the first study to deal with the ascension to
power, through the ballot box, of the Muslim Brotherhood (including
in its localised forms) in the Palestinian territories, Tunisia,
Egypt and elsewhere to analyse the impact of this in terms of
Western policy debates on whether and how they should engage with
this manifestation of political Islam.
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