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100			_aMitchell, Richard .P.
245		0	_aSociety of the muslim brothers
260			_aLondon _bOxford University Press _c1966
300			_a349p.
520			_aThis is a detailed study of the Muslim Brother- hood, a movement for religious and social reform which troubled the political life of Egypt for almost a generation until it was suppressed by the military regime in 1954; it continued after that in secret, and emerged briefly as a focus of opposition to the regime in 1965. It is divided into three parts: a narrative of the foundation, rise, and suppression of the Brotherhood; a study of its organization and methods; and an analysis of its ideology. The value of the book lies not only in its detailed investigation of an important phase in modern Egyptian history, but still more in its being almost the first attempt to study in detail the develop- ment of a kind of movement which has occurred again and again in the history of Islam: a movement which begins by calling for moral reform through a return to orthodox beliefs and piety, but which in course of time becomes a political movement aiming at the seizure of power, the destruction of a social order, and its replacement by another in which it will be possible for the devout Muslim to live without making compromises with the world. There have been three or four short books on the Muslim Brotherhood, but none of them of this scope or thoroughness. It is based on a vast collection of primary sources in Arabic (official publications of the Brotherhood, expository works by its spokesmen, reports of trials) as well as on innumerable interviews and first-hand obser- vation over a period of years. Much of this material is now no longer available, and the book will therefore remain an indispensable source for those who wish to study this movement, or this kind of movement, or the history of Egypt during this period.
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