The Muslim Brotherhood and Democratic Transition in Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6160814 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carrie Rosefsky Wickham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 204-223 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Law and Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1876-3367 • E-ISSN: 1876-3375 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/187633711x591558 |
| OpenAlex | W1992769193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
As Egypt’s largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood is uniquely situated to play a leading role in this era of political transition. Although some welcome the Brotherhood’s involvement, others view its growing infl uence with apprehension and dismay. Such diff ering reactions refl ect serious disagreements about the credibility of the Brotherhood’s commitments to pluralism and democracy, as well as on whether its rising power poses a threat to regional peace and stability. At the core of such disagreements are fundamental diff erences of opinion on a number of key issues. First, what is the Brotherhood and what does it want? Second, how much support does it enjoy among members of the wider Egyptian public, and how well-positioned is it to convert that support into political power? Th ird, and perhaps most consequentially, to what extent, and in what ways, has the Brotherhood moved away from its radical anti-system past? Such questions raise the larger issue of whether “fundamentalist” religious groups are capable of self-transformation through their involvement in the give-and-take of democratic politics, a subject with broader relevance to our understanding of social movement change writ large
Apprehension · Democracy · Democratization · Epistemology · Islam · Opposition (politics · Pluralism (philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sharia · Sociology · Theocracy · Writ · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society
The Jihad post-Arab Spring
Modernity, Civil Society, and Sectarianism
Politics of critique
The Notions of Citizenship and the Civil State in the Egyptian Transition Process
Dynamic Tolerance
The Arab Spring
The Political Incorporation of Anti-System Religious Parties
Party proliferation and electoral transition in post-Mubarak Egypt
Factors of Development Social Work Education in Contemporary Egypt
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |