Author : Khalil al-Anani,Khalīl ʻAnānī
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190279738
Inside the Muslim Brotherhood by Khalil al-Anani,Khalīl ʻAnānī Pdf
Inside the Muslim Brotherhood' provides a comprehensive analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt since 1981. The book unpacks the principal factors that shape the Brotherhood's identity, organization, and activism, investigating the processes of socialization, indoctrination, recruitment, identification, networking, and mobilization utilized by the movement. Khalil al-Anani argues that the Brotherhood is not merely a political actor seeks power but also an identity maker that aims to change societal values, norms, and morals to line up with its ideology and worldview. As a socio-political movement, he finds, the Brotherhood is involved in an intensive process of meaning construction and symbolic production that shape individuals' identity and gives sense to their lives. The result is Brotherhood a distinctive code of identity that governs the norms, values, and regulations that bind members together, maintains their activism, and guides their behavior in everyday life.