Inside the Muslim Brotherhood : religion, identity, and politics

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The work Inside the Muslim Brotherhood : religion, identity, and politics represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Inside the Muslim Brotherhood : religion, identity, and politics

Title remainder

religion, identity, and politics

Statement of responsibility

Khalil al-Anani

Creator

• ʻAnānī, Khalīl

Author

• ʻAnānī, Khalīl

Subject

• Islam and politics
• Islam and politics -- Egypt
• Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt)
• Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt)
• Muslimbruderschaft
• Politics and government
• Since 1981
• Ägypten
• Egypt
• Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1981-

Language

eng

Summary

"The book unpacks the principal factors that shape the Brotherhood's identity, organization, and activism, investigating the processes of socialization, indoctrination, recruitment, identification, networking, and mobilization utilized by the movement. Khalil al-Anani argues that the Brotherhood is not merely a political actor seeks power but also an identity maker that aims to change societal values, norms, and morals to line up with its ideology and worldview. As a socio-political movement, he finds, the Brotherhood is involved in an intensive process of meaning construction and symbolic production that shape individuals' identity and gives sense to their lives. The result is Brotherhood a distinctive code of identity that governs the norms, values, and regulations that bind members together, maintains their activism, and guides their behavior in everyday life. The book also explains the Brotherhood's durability and how it endured regime repression and exclusion over the past three decades, which al-Anani attributes to the organization's structure and coherence. A tight-knit structure coupled with complex membership system has allowed the Brotherhood to resist regime penetration. Lastly, the book explores the balance of power within the Brotherhood. It investigates the divisions and differences within the movement and how this affects its strategy and decisions."--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Religion and global politics

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

322.4/20962

Index

index present

LC call number

BP10.J383

LC item number

A635 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Religion and global politics