The Muslim Brotherhood is the oldest and most important international Islamist group. Aside from strong organizations in Egypt, Jordan, Syriawhere it provides the main oppositionand its Palestinian offshoot Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip, the Brotherhood has become active in Europe and North America.

"This is a wide-ranging, pithy, and painstakingly thorough collection, at once gripping and informative. It fills a critical lacuna in Middle East Studies and in the study of Islamist groups in particular, which, although already impressive in the breadth of their literature, remain mostly on the order of hagiographies and eloquent apologetics, more often than not justifying Islamism rather than mining its history and subjecting it to the honest critic s scalpel. Barry Rubin s collection has distinguished itself from the rest quite brilliantly here, supplementing the field with a refreshing dispassionate treatment of the Brotherhoods, and providing specialists, students and the general public with an alternative reading to common platitudes currently dominating the field. What s more, Rubin and the other contributors to this volume did that with alacrity, penetrating attention to detail, scrupulous plumbing of sources, and a pellucid jargon-free style making this collection at once instructive and strikingly accessible." - Franck Salameh, Boston College

Autorentext
BARRY RUBIN is Director of the Global Research for International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and Professor at the Interdisciplinary University.

Inhalt
Comparing Muslim Brotherhoods; B.Rubin The Middle East Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Portrait of the Muslim Brotherhood's Ideological Guide; A.Belén Soage The Muslim Brothers in Egypt; A.Belén Soage & J.Fuentelsaz Franganillo The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan; H.Escobar The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood; R.Rabil Hamas: The Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood; H.Frisch Europe and the West The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe; L.Vidino The Very Model of a British Muslim Brotherhood; D.Rich The Muslim Brotherhood in France; F.Khosrokhavar The Muslim Brotherhood in Germany; G.Steinberg The Muslim Brotherhood in North America; A.Lapin