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The Political Revival of Islam: The Case of Egypt
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The Middle East was the cradle of the World's three great monotheistic religions as discussed by the authors, and to this day they continue to play a very important role in the world's affairs.Abstract:
The Middle East was the cradle of the World's three great monotheistic religions, and to this day they continue to play a very important role it its affairs.read more
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Structuring Conflict in the Arab World: Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions
TL;DR: The manipulation of political opposition is discussed in this paper, where the inclusion and exclusion of political oppositions is discussed as well as the dynamics of opposition in unified SoCs and divided SoCs.
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Islamic Mobilization: Social Movement Theory and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
TL;DR: The authors examines the emergence and growth of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the 1930s through the 1950s, outlining and empirically evaluating possible explanations for the group's rise and decline.
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Islamism, Revolution, and Civil Society
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how the rise of Islamism can be illuminated by findings of the literatures on revolution and civil society, and vice versa, and show that what has occurred in Egypt (and other parts of the Arab world) is not a successful revolution but a peculiar stalemate in which the existing regime retains political power while ceding substantial control over the societal and cultural spheres to the revolutionary challenger.
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Islamic Revival and Modernity: the Contemporary Movements and the Historical Paradigms
TL;DR: The contemporary Islamic movements are both a response to the conditions of modernity as discussed by the authors, to the centralization of state power and the development of capitalist economies, and a cultural expression of Islam. But the emphasis upon Islamic values is not intended as a return to some past era but represents an effort to cope with contemporary problems by renewed commitment to the basic principles, though not the historical details, of Islam
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The Islamic Militants in Egyptian Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions that favored the emergence of Islamic militancy in Egypt have been analyzed, and psychological, political, and socioeconomic categories have been widely used to explain the ill effects of sectarian and political violence on social harmony and the stability of the political order.
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The Society of the Muslim Brothers
TL;DR: The history of the Egyptian Revivalist Egyptian movement up to the time of Nasser is described in this paper, with a foreword from a leading scholar of Islam in the English speaking world.
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Islam in the Soviet Union
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Islam and the Integration of Society
TL;DR: The authors explored the social, economic and behavioural contexts of religious activity and found that no study of religious practice, ancient or modern, is complete without reference to the work of sociologists on religious practice.