Brothers behind bars: a history of the Muslim brotherhood from the Palestine War to Egypt's prisons
"Brothers Behind Bars tells the harrowing, yet fascinating story of the Muslim Brotherhood's imprisonment in Egypt from the Palestine War in 1948 to the consolidation of President Anwar al-Sadat's rule in 1975. Based on more than three hundred prison memoirs written by both Muslim Bro...
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2025]
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| Dans: | Année: 2025 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Égypte
/ Muslimbruderschaft
/ Prison
/ Histoire 1948-1975
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt)
B Islam and politics (Egypt) B Islamic fundamentalism (Egypt) |
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Table des matières (Aggregator) |
| Édition parallèle: | Électronique
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| Résumé: | "Brothers Behind Bars tells the harrowing, yet fascinating story of the Muslim Brotherhood's imprisonment in Egypt from the Palestine War in 1948 to the consolidation of President Anwar al-Sadat's rule in 1975. Based on more than three hundred prison memoirs written by both Muslim Brothers and Sisters, the book takes the reader on a rare journey behind the prison walls to show how radicals and moderates, ministers and intelligence officers, clerics and jailers were embroiled in an epic battle to define Islam in modern Egypt. Brothers Behind Bars argues that Egypt's state institutions played a crucial role in shaping the ideologies within the Muslim Brotherhood, demonstrating how the institution of the prison became a critical site for the formation of a political counter-public in modern Egypt. Likewise, it demonstrates how the Muslim Brothers, amidst crushing state repression, established an underground prison society that came to serve as a template for the utopia they envisioned for an Islamic Egypt. Although prison severely encroached on the freedom of the Muslim Brothers, it also forced upon them a time to reflect on their situation - not only in conversation with each other, but with political prisoners of other ideological convictions as well, most notably communists and Zionists. Thus, by emphasizing not what state repression restricted the Muslim Brothers from doing, but rather what it allowed them to do, Brothers Behind Bars shows how the ideology of the Muslim Brothers was shaped not only by debates internal to them, but by encounters with leftist intellectuals, religious clerics, and intelligence officers inside the prisons of Egypt"-- |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Description matérielle: | xi, 478 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-766273-1 978-0-19-766274-8 978-0-19-766276-2 978-0-19-766275-5 |
