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This book is an indispensable resource for anyone looking to understand the Muslim Brotherhood; Qatar's role in promoting the group; and the ideological, social, and religious factors that have led to its ultimate failure. The book begins by looking at the birth of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in 1928 in Egypt. It then traces its ideology and expansion via the various affiliate organizations in the Arab world as well as its international presence up to the present day. Throughout this historical analysis, evidence is presented linking the MB again and again to political violence and a lack of a coherent policy. The book weaves into this history the influence of Qatari support, a clarification of the division between true Salafism and the MB's radical ideology, an explanation of how Jamal Khashoggi was a living metaphor for this misunderstanding, and the role the MB has played in various revolutionary movements throughout the Middle East. The book concludes with a current geopolitical outlook on the MB itself and the Arab world in which it resides. The book is extensively sourced with first-hand primary source quotes from numerous exclusive personal interviews conducted by the author, with both experts on the subject and officials in the region.

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Terrorist organizations --- Religious militants --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Radicalism --- Terrorism --- Terrorism --- Jihad --- National security --- Identification. --- Government policy --- Political aspects. --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Prevention. --- Prevention. --- Ikhwān al-Muslimūn. --- Ikhwān al-Muslimūn. --- United States.

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While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so-called 'rentier states' where taxes are very low and oil wealth subsidizes the needs of citizens, are largely unaffected by such movements. Using contemporary history and original empirical research, Courtney Freer updates traditional rentier state theory and argues that political Islam serves as a prominent voice and tool to promote more strictly political, and often populist or reformist, views supported by many Gulf citizens.

Ikhwān al-Muslimūn. --- Ikhwān al-Muslimūn --- Influence. --- Persian Gulf Region --- Persian Gulf Region. --- Economic conditions. --- Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn --- Jamāʻat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn --- MB --- Muslim Brotherhood --- Society of the Muslim Brothers --- Muslim Brothers, Society of the --- إخوان المسلمون --- جمعية الإخوان المسلمين --- جماعة الإخوان المسلمين

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Islam and state --- Islam and politics --- Islam et Etat --- Islam et politique --- History --- Histoire --- Ikhwān al-Muslimūn --- Arab countries --- Etats arabes --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Ikhwan al-Muslimun --- Ǧamʿiyyaẗ al-iẖwān al-muslimīn (Egypte) --- Pays arabes --- Frères musulmans --- Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn --- Islamisme --- Ikhwān al-Muslimūn. --- Islam and politics - Arab countries - History - 21st century --- Islam and state - Arab countries - History - 21st century --- Arab countries - Politics and government - 21st century --- Frères musulmans

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The Muslim Brotherhood has achieved a level of influence nearly unimaginable before the Arab Spring. The Brotherhood was the resounding victor in Egypt's 2011-2012 parliamentary elections, and six months later, a leader of the group was elected president. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's rising power for the future of democratic governance, peace, and stability in the region is open to dispute. Drawing on more than one hundred in-depth interviews as well as Arabic language sources not previously 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 Mubarak and the watershed elections of 2011-2012. Further, she compares the Brotherhood's trajectory with those of mainstream Islamist groups in Jordan, Kuwait, and Morocco, revealing a wider pattern of change. Wickham highlights the internal divisions of such groups and explores the shifting balance of power among them. She shows that they are not proceeding along a linear path toward greater moderation.Rather, their course has been marked by profound tensions and contradictions, yielding hybrid agendas in which newly embraced themes of freedom and democracy coexist uneasily with illiberal concepts of Shari'a carried over from the past. Highlighting elements of movement continuity and change, and demonstrating that shifts in Islamist worldviews, goals, and strategies are not the result of a single strand of cause and effect, Wickham provides a systematic, fine-grained account of Islamist group evolution in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

Islamic fundamentalism --- History --- Ikhwān al-Muslimūn --- ISLAM AND POLITICS -- 323 --- EGYPT -- 323 --- Fundamentalism, Islamic --- Islamism --- Islam --- Religious fundamentalism --- Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn --- Jamāʻat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn --- MB --- Muslim Brotherhood --- Society of the Muslim Brothers --- Muslim Brothers, Society of the --- إخوان المسلمون --- جمعية الإخوان المسلمين --- جماعة الإخوان المسلمين --- History. --- Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn --- Islamic fundamentalism - History