Matching Items (1)
Description
Islamism, not Islam, is a wide-ranging school of political ideology. As defined by this Fred Hillday it is a “determined choice of an Islamic doctrine, rather than the simple fact of being born Muslim.” The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt at its height was one of the most influential and largest Islamist political organizations, but as this thesis will show, its influenced has waned to the point of nonexistence. A large portion of this paper will focus on the history of the Muslim Brotherhood, its leading ideologues such as Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb, as well as its political strategies that allowed it to become the most powerful organized political force in the country at the time of Mubarak’s ousting. The political experience of Islamists in Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan will be compared to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Moroccan and Tunisian Islamists rebranded themselves as Muslim Democrats in parliamentary political systems post-Arab Spring. Sudan, which saw an Islamist autocracy similar to what the Brotherhood wanted to effect in Egypt, has become a failed state. The 2013 Coup that ended the Brotherhood and Morsi’s time in power also marked the end of the kind of Islamism the Brotherhood promoted, or at least the end of its political popularity in the mainstream across the Middle East.
ContributorsPerle, Daniel Michael (Author) / Souad, Ali (Thesis director) / Abdullahi, Gallab (Committee member) / Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Comm (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2019-05