The Muslim Brotherhood: The Organization and Policies of a Global Islamist Movement

by B. Rubin

Overview

The Muslim Brotherhood is the oldest and most important international Islamist group. Aside from strong organizations in Egypt, Jordan, Syria—where it provides the main opposition—and its Palestinian offshoot Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip, the Brotherhood has become active in Europe and North America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230100718
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	06/21/2010
Series:	Middle East in Focus
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

BARRY RUBIN is Director of the Global Research for International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and Professor at the Interdisciplinary University.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Introduction Barry Rubin 1

1 The Middle East

1 Comparing Three Muslim Brotherhoods Barry Rubin 7

2 Yusuf al-Qaradawi: The Muslim Brothers' Favorite Ideological Guide Ana Belén Soage 19

3 The Muslim Brothers in Egypt Ana Belén Soage Jorge Fuentelsaz Franganillo 39

4 The Crossroads of Muslim Brothers in Jordan Juan José Escobar Stemmann 57

5 The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood Robert G. Rabil 73

6 Hamas: The Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood Hillel Frisch 89

2 Europe and the West

7 The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe Lorenzo Vidino 105

8 The Very Model of a British Muslim Brotherhood David Rich 117

9 The Muslim Brotherhood in France Farhad Khosrokhavar 137

10 The Muslim Brotherhood in Germany Guido Steinberg 149

11 The Muslim Brotherhood in North America Alyssa A. Lappen 161

Index 181

Editorial Reviews

"This is a wide-ranging, pithy, and painstakingly thorough collection, at once gripping and informative. It fills a critical lacuna in Middle East Studies and in the study of Islamist groups in particular, which, although already impressive in the breadth of their literature, remain mostly on the order of hagiographies and eloquent apologetics, more often than not justifying Islamism rather than mining its history and subjecting it to the honest critic s scalpel. Barry Rubin s collection has distinguished itself from the rest quite brilliantly here, supplementing the field with a refreshing dispassionate treatment of the Brotherhoods, and providing specialists, students and the general public with an alternative reading to common platitudes currently dominating the field. What s more, Rubin and the other contributors to this volume did that with alacrity, penetrating attention to detail, scrupulous plumbing of sources, and a pellucid jargon-free style making this collection at once instructive and strikingly accessible." - Franck Salameh, Boston College

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