Brothers Behind Bars
A History of the Muslim Brotherhood from the Palestine War to Egypt's Prisons
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 May 2025
- ISBN 9780197662731
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 240x163x34 mm
- Weight 835 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 29 figures 606
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Short description:
Brothers Behind Bars tells the harrowing yet fascinating story of the imprisonment of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt--the largest Islamist movement in Middle Eastern history. From 1948 to 1975, thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood entered Egypt's prisons due to political clashes with the ruling powers, first King Farouk and later President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Based on a wealth of understudied material--including prison memoirs, diaries, poems, plays, magazines, novels, and more--Brothers Behind Bars gives voice to ordinary Muslim Brothers, and a handful of Sisters, and offers a new understanding of Islamism in twentieth-century Egypt.
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Brothers Behind Bars tells the harrowing, yet fascinating, story of the imprisonment of the Muslim Brotherhood--the largest Islamist movement in Middle Eastern history--in Egypt stretching from the Palestine war in 1948 to the consolidation of President Anwar al-Sadat's rule in 1975. Drawing on prison memoirs written by Muslim Brothers and Sisters, Mathias Ghyoot takes the reader on a rare journey behind the prison walls to show how radicals and moderates, ministers and intelligence officers, clerics and jailers were embroiled in an epic battle to define Islam in modern Egypt.
Ghyoot argues that Egypt's state institutions played a crucial role in shaping ideologies within the Muslim Brotherhood, demonstrating how the institution of the prison became a critical site for the formation of political resistance in modern Egypt. Although prison severely encroached on the freedom of the Muslim Brothers, it also spurred reflection and conversations among them as well as with political prisoners of other ideological convictions, most notably communists and Zionists. By emphasizing not what state repression restricted the Muslim Brothers from doing, but rather what it allowed them to do, Ghyoot shows how the ideology of the Muslim Brothers was shaped not only by internal debates but also by encounters--good and bad--with leftist intellectuals, religious clerics, and intelligence officers inside Egypt's prisons.
Ghyoot recounts how, amidst crushing state repression, the Muslim Brothers established an underground prison society that came to serve as a template for the utopia they envisioned for an Islamic Egypt. Brothers Behind Bars offers a new understanding of Islamism in twentieth-century Egypt.
A superb piece of scholarship. Based on an impressive array of hitherto unknown or unexplored primary sources, Ghyoot offers an entirely new reading of a formative phase of Islamist thought and practice. His work on the Egyptian Muslim Brothers' prison years is one of the most exciting contributions to the study of Islamism in the modern Arab Middle East-and beyond-to appear in many years.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Note on Conventions
Introduction: 'Every Beard Has a Story'
Part I: The First Ordeal (1948-1951)
Chapter 1: Brothers in Arms
Chapter 2: Camp Huckstep
Chapter 3: Mount Moses
Part II: The Second Ordeal (1954-1964)
Chapter 4: Betrayed by a Brother
Chapter 5: Trials and Tribulations
Chapter 6: The Virtuous City
Chapter 7: Supporters and Opponents
Chapter 8: Milestones
Part III: The Third Ordeal (1965-1975)
Chapter 9: Pharaoh Strikes Again
Chapter 10: The Enlightenment
Chapter 11: We Are Judges
Chapter 12: Nay, We Are Preachers
Conclusion: The Fourth Ordeal
Index
