Date of Completion
2015
Document Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
Global Studies
Thesis Type
Honors College
First Advisor
Peter VonDoepp
Second Advisor
Darius Jonathan
Third Advisor
Bogac Ergene
Keywords
Cairo, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Islamist movements, Modern Egyptian History, Gamal Abdel Nasser
Abstract
Abstract:
My thesis is that from its foundation in 1928 the social, religious, and ideological views officially propounded and supported by the Muslim Brotherhood have been an uneasy synthesis of violently opposing social, political, and spiritual views embraced by the more influential and articulate theorists and operatives within its ranks and that these varying views are broadly representative of the profound social, religious, and political divisions that have characterized the evolution of Egyptian society since the 19th century. My thesis will argue that the ways in which the radically opposed approaches of various theorists and operatives active within the Brotherhood have been instrumental in promoting ideological positions that have at key moments in recent Egyptian history resulted in rancorous, nearly crippling, discord within the organization itself and have on a number of critical occasions inspired unofficially sanctioned violence in the public sphere.
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Recommended Citation
Lindstrom-Ives, Ben Morris, "The Muslim Brotherhood: How its Troubled History Suggests that it Will Not merely Survive but Thrive in the Twenty-First Century" (2015). UVM Honors College Senior Theses. 80.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/hcoltheses/80