Anteprima |
Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat's Egypt
When
revolutionary hero Gamal Abdel Nasser dismantled and suppressed Egypt's
largest social movement organization during the 1950s, few could have
imagined that the Muslim Brotherhood would not only reemerge, but could
one day compete for the presidency in the nation's first ever democratic
election. While there is no shortage of analyses of the Muslim
Brotherhood's recent political successes and failures, no study has
investigated the organization's triumphant return from the dustbin of
his