The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-81353-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 60, 325 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Cambridge Middle East Studies

Since its founding in 1945, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood has enjoyed decades of almost continuous parliamentary presence and state acceptance in Jordan, participating in elections, organising events and even establishing a hospital. In this detailed account of the Muslim Brotherhood's ideological and behavioural development in Jordan, Joas Wagemakers focusses on the group's long history and complex relationship with the state, its parliament and society. It shows how age-old concepts derived from classical Islam and the writings of global Islamist scholars have been used and reused by modern-day Jordanian Islamists to shape their beliefs in the context of the present-day nation-state. Far from its reputation as a two-faced global conspiracy bent on conquering the West, the Muslim Brotherhood is a deeply divided group that has nevertheless maintained a fascinating internal ideological consistency in its use of similar religious concepts. As such, it is part of, and continues to build on, trends in Muslim thought that go back hundreds of years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagemakers, Joas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Theokratische und religiöse Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. Sunni Islamic political thought until the twentieth century; 2. The early Muslim Brotherhood's political thought; 3. The Muslim Brotherhood's behaviour in the Jordanian context; Part II. Divisions: 4. Ideological divisions on the state; 5. Ideological divisions on political participation; 6. Ideological unity on societal rights and freedoms; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Wagemakers, Joas
Joas Wagemakers is Associate Professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Utrecht University. He has published extensively on Islamist ideology and Islamic movements, including A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (2012) and Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietist Community (2016), which won the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in 2017.