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Inside the Muslim Brotherhood, religion, identity, and politics, Khalil al-Anani

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Inside the Muslim Brotherhood

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Khalil al-Anani

Religion and global politics

religion, identity, and politics

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. The book also explains the Brotherhood's durability and how it endured regime repression and exclusion over the past three decades, which al-Anani attributes to the organization's structure and coherence

Introduction: unpacking the Brotherhood -- Debating islamism and theorizing the Brotherhood -- Constructing Islamic collective identity -- Power of the jama'a: the enduring legacy of Hasan al-Banna -- Chasing the prey: the Brotherhood's art of recruitment -- Tarbiyya and consolidating the Brotherhood's identity -- The Brotherhood's organization, structure, and ideology -- Ikhwansim: the Brotherhood's code of identity -- Enforced coherence: the Brotherhood under regime repression -- Conclusion

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