The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt: Democracy Redefined or Confined?

ISBN-13: 9780415465960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 208 str.

Tadros Mariz

Opis

The Muslim Brotherhood has become the world's largest, most influential Islamist group. This text examines the Brotherhood's active role in Egypt and throughout the Middle East and Arab world, exploring its evolving position on key issues including gender, religious minorities, and political plurality.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Egypt and the Brotherhood in a pressure cooker  2. From the Friday of Fury to the Shari‘a Friday  3. A civil state with an Islamic reference: an oxymoron?  4. Political pluralism with an Islamic reference  5. The Copts and the Brothers from El Banna to Bad‘i  6. Islamic citizenship and its qualifiers  7. The Sisters of the Brotherhood and the woman question  8. The Gender Agenda: Reformed or Reframed?  Conclusions

O autorze

Mariz Tadros is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. She spent three years as an Assistant Professor at the American University of Cairo, has worked as a consultant for both local and international NGOs, and was a journalist for Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper for almost ten years, covering human rights, women's rights, civil society organizations and activism, poverty and a plethora of development-related topics.