Politics as worship: righteous activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers
"Pahwa shows how the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood framed political work through Islamic concepts of righteous action over three decades of electoral participation and asks how a religious understanding of politics reshaped the movement's self-understanding of its mission through a construct...
| Summary: | "Pahwa shows how the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood framed political work through Islamic concepts of righteous action over three decades of electoral participation and asks how a religious understanding of politics reshaped the movement's self-understanding of its mission through a constructivist analysis of hundreds of primary sources, including movement statements, speeches, writings, training materials, and interviews, in addition to secondary sources"-- How to Act for Islam in the World -- Cultivating Citizens and Representing Righteousness : Da'wa and Tarbiya through Electoral and Parliamentary Politics 1984-1987 -- God and Rule : Political Empowerment and Applying Shari'a -- Political Work and the Practical Tarbiya of Welfarism -- Shura, Shari'a, Shar'iyya : Applying Islam in Government. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xii, 280 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 081563823X |