Introduction
1 FAMILY BACKGROUND, EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREER
Rural Piety
Early Education
Encountering Sufism
At Dar al-‘Ulum
The Impact of the Capital
2 THE SOCIETY OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERS: 1928–38
Planting the Seed in Isma‘iliyya
Contestation and Suspicion
The Move to Cairo
Building a Base
Recruitment and Activities
3 ENTERING THE POLITICAL STAGE: 1938–49
Looking Beyond Egypt
Going Political at Home
Preparing for Jihad: Rovers and Battalions
Patrons without Clients? The Muslim Brothers, the Palace and Party Politics
The Second World War and its Aftermath
Post-War Growth and Expansion
The Special Apparatus
Breakdown: 1948–9
4 HASAN AL-BANNA: THE PIVOT OF HIS UNIVERSE
Between Shaykh and Efendi: a Social Profile
Islam Applied: an Intellectual Profile
What Went Wrong?
The Means of Change
On Unity and Community
Islam as a System
A Moral Order, or Creating New Islamic Man
The Virtuous City
A Moral Economy
A Charismatic Community?
Concluding Remarks
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Gudrun Krämer is Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies, Free University, Berlin.
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