Crossing the Ideological Divide? Egypt's<i>Salafists</i>and the Muslim Brotherhood after the Arab Spring

Ranko, Annette; Nedza, Justyna

doi:10.1080/1057610x.2015.1116274

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“…The same inconsistency arises also when the substantive meaning of moderation is adopted and scholars answer to this research question by directly looking at Salafis' political programs (Gurses 2014). Using the Egyptian case study, Ranko and Nedza (2016) see in Salafi political programs a process of ideological approximation with other parties, particularly mainstream Islamists. Pushing further this argument, some speak of the “Ikhwanization of the Salafis” (Utvik 2014) and see Salafi parties following the same political trajectory the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) followed; a trajectory that saw the Brothers embrace democratic procedures and civil–political rights.…”

Section: How Salafists' Economic Proposals Speak Of Their Party–votermentioning

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Beyond Quietism: Party Institutionalisation, Salafism, and the Economy

Cavatorta

Resta

2020

Politics and Religion

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Breaking with a long tradition of political quietism, many Salafis in Tunisia and Egypt decided to found political parties and participate in competitive elections after the collapse of the regime. In doing so, they had to present a political program to voters, including policy proposals on economic issues. The article examines how Salafi parties dealt with economic policy-making and finds that they reluctantly engaged with it, offering contradictory and naïve policies meant to pander to the electorate. Policy-making preferences and positions on economic issues are employed to look at the degree of party institutionalization Salafi parties have.

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Section: How Salafists' Economic Proposals Speak Of Their Party–votermentioning

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Beyond Quietism: Party Institutionalisation, Salafism, and the Economy

Cavatorta

Resta

2020

Politics and Religion

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“…Since the establishment of the Salafi Call in the 1970s, the relationship between the organization and the Brotherhood was characterized by enmity (Arafat, 2018;Ranko & Nedza, 2016). The Salafis' ideological and theological disagreements with the Brotherhood were one of the reasons behind the establishment of the Salafi Call (Cavatorta & Merone, 2016).…”

Section: The Salafi-brotherhood Feudmentioning

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“…Meanwhile, the Salafi call embraced the tradition of political quietism and criticized the MB for participating in politics and demanding democratic freedoms (Ranko & Nedza, 2016). The Salafi Call was established out of a rejection of the Brotherhood's cautious method, which was a consequence of the conditions they faced under Nasser (Rubin, 2013).…”

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From Sectarian Socialization to Violent Socialization. (c2020)

Nooruddin¹

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In the last two decades, academic work published on sectarianism in the Middle East has focused on the Sunni-Shi‘a conflict in either states with heterogeneous Muslim populations, such as Lebanon and Iraq, or postwar states, such as Yemen and Syria. In other states, like Egypt and Sudan, academic work on sectarianism mainly revolved around the Muslim-Christian conflict, due to the assumption that the Muslim population is homogenously Sunni. By studying the case of Egypt during Mohamed Morsi’s rule, this study aims to explain the Sunni-Shi‘a divide in a state that contains a homogenous Muslim population of one main sect. In this thesis, the theories of sectarian socialization and violent socialization are used to show that sectarian sentiments increased during this short period. The study explores the correlation between the rise of Islamists in Egypt and the increase in the sectarian divide. The perspective of the socialized Egyptians is also examined to reach an understanding of their belief in a societal threat. The threat is correlated with two main events during this period: Morsi’s efforts to normalize Egyptian-Iranian relations and the rise of Salafi-jihadism in Syria. The thesis concludes that Morsi‘s policies and failure to invalidate the societal threat delegitimized his credibility as a president and fueled sectarian violence in Egypt.

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Egypt as Case of Failed Pacting

Alaoui

2022

Pacted Democracy in the Middle East

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Crossing the Ideological Divide? Egypt'sSalafistsand the Muslim Brotherhood after the Arab Spring

Cited by 11 publications

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Beyond Quietism: Party Institutionalisation, Salafism, and the Economy

Beyond Quietism: Party Institutionalisation, Salafism, and the Economy

From Sectarian Socialization to Violent Socialization. (c2020)

Egypt as Case of Failed Pacting

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