One of the fulcrums of change in political Islam is the relationship between traditional patterns of Islamic politics, which focus upon the pursuit and wielding of formal power, particularly with the aim of enacting of shari’a law, and the more recent emergence of dynamic social spheres of Islamic activism, which emphasise values and moral order and operate with considerable autonomy from Isl…
The Muslim Brotherhood plays a prominent role in the politics of many Muslim countries as one of the largest Islamist groups. As a politico-social movement, the Muslim Brotherhood has gone through many tactical and ideological shifts over the past 90 years since its founding in 1928. Studying these shifts and the reasoning behind them can help us to understand the behaviour of certain groups. T…
This article discusses about the attitude of the Muslim Brotherhood on nationalism and its relevance to the concept of ummah. Nationalism, for the Muslim Brotherhood, is a love of the homeland, liberating the land from occupation, and strengthening brotherhood. Nationalism’s goal is to guide Muslim men toward the light of Islam and to raise the banner of Islam highly in each hemisphere in rea…
This paper tries to portray the why in which Islamism reacted to political constellation in the Egyption context from the time of Anwar Sadat to of Hosni Mubarak. It show that the Egyptian government from time to time often adopts a harsh polity toeard any forms of extremism in the name of Islam. However, persecution led to nothing but the increase of rsdical Islamism. This orrurred because the…