The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

A wide-ranging account of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan and its ideological and behavioural development since its founding in 1945.

Joas Wagemakers (Author)

9781108839655, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 September 2020

325 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.6 kg

'Joas Wagemakers is already regarded as a premier scholar of Salafism and other aspects of Islamism, but this book will only add to his record. This book will deservedly be seen as one of the definitive works on the Muslim Brotherhood, on Islamism, and on Jordan for years to come.' Curtis R. Ryan, Appalachian State University

Since its founding in 1945, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood has enjoyed decades of almost continuous parliamentary presence and state acceptance in Jordan, participating in elections, organising events and even establishing a hospital. In this detailed account of the Muslim Brotherhood's ideological and behavioural development in Jordan, Joas Wagemakers focusses on the group's long history and complex relationship with the state, its parliament and society. It shows how age-old concepts derived from classical Islam and the writings of global Islamist scholars have been used and reused by modern-day Jordanian Islamists to shape their beliefs in the context of the present-day nation-state. Far from its reputation as a two-faced global conspiracy bent on conquering the West, the Muslim Brotherhood is a deeply divided group that has nevertheless maintained a fascinating internal ideological consistency in its use of similar religious concepts. As such, it is part of, and continues to build on, trends in Muslim thought that go back hundreds of years.

Introduction
Part I. Context: 1. Sunni Islamic political thought until the twentieth century
2. The early Muslim Brotherhood's political thought
3. The Muslim Brotherhood's behaviour in the Jordanian context
Part II. Divisions: 4. Ideological divisions on the state
5. Ideological divisions on political participation
6. Ideological unity on societal rights and freedoms
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Political subversion [JPWJ], Demonstrations & protest movements [JPWF], Political campaigning & advertising [JPVL], Political manifestos [JPLM], Political structures: democracy [JPHV], Religious & theocratic ideologies [JPFR], Politics & government [JP]