Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt

Carrie Rosefsky Wickham

Paper, 300 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12573-4
$29.50 / £20.50

November, 2002
Cloth, 300 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12572-7
$90.00 / £62.00

1. Introduction

2. Nasser and the Silencing of Protest

3. Educated and Under-Employed: The Rise of the Lumpen-Intelligentsia

4. Parties Without Participation

5. The Parallel Islamic Sector

6. "The Call to God": The Islamist Project of Ideological Outreach

7. Explaining the Success of Islamist Outreach

8. From the Periphery to the Center: The Islamic Trend in Egypt's Professional Associations

9. Cycles of Mobilization Under Authoritarian Rule

10. Postscript: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Mubarak Regime, 1995-2001

Related Subjects

• History
• International Affairs
• Islam

About the Author

Carrie Rosefsky Wickham is associate professor of political science at Emory University. Her current project examines new trends in Islamic political thought and practice throughout the Middle East.

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