Ikhwanweb
A digital archive for a post-Islamist movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12913462 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paolo d’Urbano (0000-0003-4014-6496, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 253-272 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9411 • E-ISSN: 1751-942X |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/jammr_00006_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2995590377 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The article looks at Ikhwanweb, the English website of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB), from its early days and through the years before the 25th January revolution. The archive is used as a theoretical concept to capture both the symbolic and material struggles that the MB faced while trying to articulate its political vision. As a nodal point where power and knowledge intersect, the concept of the archive was first theorized by Foucault and Derrida. Ikhwanweb is examined as a digital archive, a site for both knowledge and memory production. The first section deals with the main analytical concept; the second tells the troubled history of the material infrastructure required to run the website. Then two main threads are identified and examined. The need to distantiate the organization from political violence and that of reaching out ‘the West’ shaped the content of Ikhwanweb. The website also allowed the group to interact directly with policy-making circles and research institutions. Can this be said to be part of that process Bayat calls post-Islamism? The concluding section reflects on this question and suggests a more ambivalent picture
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Media studies · Movement (music · Point (geometry · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Process (computing · Section (typography · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines
The Islamist opposition online in Egypt and Jordan
Contextualising the Media and the Uprisings
Ikhwanweb
Islam Divided Between Salafi - jihad and the Ikhwan
Colonial archives and the arts of governance
The Clash of Civilizations
Communication beyond Meaning
Secularism, Hermeneutics, and Empire
Radical Post-humanism
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |