Imagining the Perfect Society in Muslim Brotherhood Journals : : An Analysis of al-Da'wa and Liwa' al-Islam / / Kiki M. Santing.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Santing, Kiki M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 509 p.)

The investigation of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood during the presidencies of Anwar Sadat and the early years of Hosni Mubarak is based on the movement’s main journals, al-Da‘wa and Liwā’ al-’Islām, presenting its history during two relevant periods: 1976-1981, 1987-1988. These journals show that, contrary to the focus in modern research (e.a. sharia laws, gender relations, or ideas of democracy), the Brotherhood is a much more broadly oriented, social-political opposition movement, taking Islam as its guideline. The movement’s own versatile discourse discusses all aspects of daily and spiritual life. An important adage of the Brotherhood is Islam as a niẓām kāmil wa-shāmil, ‘a perfect and all-encompassing system’. Faith should play a role in every aspect of daily life, from cooking dinner and housekeeping to education, holidays, enemy images, legislation, and watching television. Islam is everything, and everything is Islam. In its journals the Brotherhood provided its unique reflection of the spirit of the age. The movement presented itself as a highly reactive group that responded to current events and positioned itself as a moral, religious and political opposition to the Egyptian regime.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on transliteration -- Contents -- Muslim Brotherhood journals under Sadat and Mubarak: An introduction -- 1 Sixty years of Muslim Brotherhood press (1928 – 1987) -- 2 The rise of the Brotherhood and the legacy of Hasan al-Banna (1928 – 1954) -- 3 Incarcerated and tortured: The trauma of the Nasser years (1952 – 1970) -- 4 Between coexistence and confrontation: The return under Sadat (1970 – 1981) -- 5 Mubarak and the search for political representation (1981 – 1988) -- 6 Editorial Features of al-Da‘wa -- 7 Writing the journal: The Authors of al-Da‘wa -- 8 Al-Da‘wa and Matters of National Policy -- 9 Religion and Form of Government -- 10 Women and youth: Contributors to a successful Islamic order -- 11 The Enemies of al-Da‘wa -- 12 The Muslim Brotherhood returns with a new journal: Liwa’ al-Islam -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- List of figures -- Index