Contemporary Islamic Political Thought in Egypt

Reading Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri in Autocratic Contexts

Ebtisam Aly Hussein

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780755653164
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism. Ebtisam Aly Hussein uses the framework of 'meta-languages', in relation to the writings of these two particular Islamic intellectuals, to examine how authority over the public sphere is established, in both religious and political terms. Chapters outline the major themes of Islamic political thought in the writings of al-Banna and al-Bishri - mainly the state in Islam, Shari'a application, political violence as jihad, and identity politics - and how in their writings they have interacted with a variety of autocratic practices under Nasir, Sadat and Mubarak. The book puts forward a unique study of the role of politics and religion in establishing authority over the public sphere, and how this authority is manifested in the intellectual output of these two Islamic intellectuals.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Dedication Page
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Technical notes
• Introduction: From Orientalism to power over the public sphere
• 1 Contemporary Islamic political thought
• 2 Egypt: Surviving autocratic regimes
• 3 Jamal al-Banna on CIPT
• 4 Tariq al-Bishri on CIPT
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright Page