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Mobilizing Islam: religion, activism, and political change in Egypt

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0231125739, 9780231125734, 0231125720, 9780231125727
Google Books ID
m9RWMXDxMmcC
Open Library ID
OL9641420M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
970 kB (993641 bytes)
Pages
324\324
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering important and surprising answers to a series of pressing questions. Under what conditions does mobilization by opposition groups become possible in authoritarian settings? Why did Islamist groups have more success attracting recruits and overcoming governmental restraints than their secular rivals? And finally, how can Islamist mobilization contribute to broader and more enduring forms of political change throughout the Muslim world? Moving beyond the simplistic accounts of "Islamic fundamentalism" offered by much of the Western media, Mobilizing Islam offers a balanced and persuasive explanation of the Islamic movement's dramatic growth in the world's largest Arab state.

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