Islamism in Southern Egypt

A Case Study of a Radical Religious Movement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8966082
AutoresJames Toth (autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume35
Fascículo4
Páginas547-572
Data de publicação2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743803000230
OpenAlexW2019982039
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12

For years, religious violence and terrorism in Middle Eastern countries such as Egypt have splashed across the headlines and surged across the screen, announcing yet another round of senseless death and destruction. While Arabists and Islamicists attempt to pick their way carefully through the ideological and intellectual minefields to make sense of what is happening, the wider public generally disregards their insights and instead sticks to what it knows best: deeply ingrained prejudices and biases. Egyptian, Arab, Muslim—all are painted in a very unfavorable light. Even in Egypt, many bystanders show the same sorry prejudices. In the end, people simply blame the brutality on inexplicable backward religious ideas and then move on

Blame · Criminology · Happening · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrorism · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence