The Politics of Islam
The Muslim Brothers and the State in the Arab Gulf
Samenvatting
Compares state–Muslim Brotherhood relations across Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
- Traces the development of state-Muslim Brotherhood relations since the 1950s in 5 Gulf States
- Provides a detailed account of the Muslim Brotherhood’s internal dynamics that have characterised the organisation’s evolution in the last 70 years
- Examines how Gulf States have incorporated religion in building their educational and justice systems
In this book, Birol Başkan explains the variation in attitudes and approaches towards the Muslim Brotherhood across 5 Gulf States – a disparity that he argues is at the root of the ongoing Gulf crisis that erupted in June 2017.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
1 Historical Background: Geography, Political History and Islamism
2 Modern Sovereign State Building in the Gulf: From the 1950s to the 1970s
3 Gulf States and the Muslim Brotherhood
4 Modern Sovereign State Building in the Gulf: From the 1980s to the 2000s
5 Gulf States’ Diverging Attitudes towards the Muslim Brotherhood
6 The Arab Spring
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

