<i>Al-malik al-salih</i> – Islam and the monarchy in 1930s Egypt

RELIGION AND POLITICS IN EGYPT: THE ULEMA OF AL-AZHAR, RADICAL ISLAM, AND THE STATE (1952-94) A vast literature

A vast literature has been produced since the 1980s on the emergence of Islamist movements in the Middle East. This literature offers different rationales for the emergence of new kinds of foes to the political regimes of the region. Filling the void left by the leftist opposition, the Islamist militants appeared around the 1970s as new political actors. They were expected neither by the state ...

Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Confronting Militant Islam in Egypt

Saudi Arabia's role in the spreading of Salafism in the Egypt Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwān al-Muslimin)‬‬

The Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwān al-Muslimin) of Egypt is one of the most effective and widespread cultural and political-social groups of the Islamic world in the contemporary period. This movement has experienced many changes in intellectual, political and social aspects Since its establishment in 1928. Among the gradual changes of the Brotherhood in intellectual aspect is the intellectual prox...

Vicegerency (al-khilafa) and Gender Justice in Islam

function of the heritage in “al-malik howa-l-malik” play by sa’dallah wannous

since the beginning of the nineteenth century onward , arabic drama has preserved a close relation to the heritage. one of the most famous dramas s using the classical elements is “al-malik howa-l-malik” ( the king is the king) written by the syrian dramatist “sa’dallah wannous”. in composing this drama ,he has been inspired by one of one thousand and one nights fables namely “an-naim wa-l- yag...