The Muslim Brothers in pursuit of legitimacy :

ʻAwaḍī, Hishām.

The Muslim Brothers in pursuit of legitimacy : power and political Islam in Egypt under Mubarak / Hesham Al-Awadi. - New ed. - London : I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2014. - viii, 278 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Updated and expanded edition of the author's: In pursuit of legitimacy : the Muslim Brothers and Mubarak, 1982-2000. Include index : p. 265-278.

Bibliography : p. 249-264.

Introduction -- The regime and the social contract -- Mubarak in pursuit of legitimacy -- The Islamist social contract -- The power of the tanzim -- The politicisation of legitimacy -- The dismantling of Islamist power -- Legalised exclusion of the Islamists -- Conclusion -- Postscript.

9781780764306


Mubārak, Muḥammad Ḥusnī, 1928-


Ikhwān al-Muslimūn.
Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt)


Legitimacy of governments--Egypt.
Social contract--Religious aspects--Islam.


Egypt--Politics and government--1981-



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