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[ecrea] Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood

Wed Aug 02 00:05:10 GMT 2017



“Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood”
published by Routledge

Despite the burgeoning literature on the Muslim Brotherhood, knowledge about the movement is still rather limited, particularly with regard to its most strategic tool – media and communications. This book offers a fresh and close look into the communication strategy of the group, focusing on published periodicals, biographies, and websites that represent the voice of the Brotherhood.

The book analyses the core mission of the Brotherhood, namely its daᶜwa (call to faith) – how it is articulated and how it is defined by the movement as an ideology and a process; have the media represented a coherent voice of the Brotherhood over the past decades? What can they communicate regarding the Brothers’ perception of the needs of their audiences? How have the media served to sustain, preserve, and distinguish the movement for nine decades?

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach which integrates Media Studies and Social Movement Theory, the book provides a fresh analysis of the Brotherhood movement as an “interpretive community” and will be a valuable resource for anyone studying Media and Religion, Middle Eastern Studies or social movements.


Official details and further information can be found at: https://www.routledge.com/Voice-of-the-Muslim-Brotherhood-Dawa-Discourse-and-Political-Communication/Mellor/p/book/9781138078659

The book is also available as ebook for immediate download.

*Reviews*

“/Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood/ is a meticulous examination of the contents of the various media outlets associated with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. Beyond demonstrating the variability of the viewpoints expressed by its spokesmen over time, the study’s attribution of the organization’s survival as a movement, despite repeated persecution, as deriving from its being an “interpretive community” with a common anti-colonialist worldview and shared practices rooted in Islam is a powerful one”.

James Jankowski, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, USA

“Throughout decades of opposition and repression, the message of the Muslim Brotherhood continued to appeal to large segments of the Egyptian population. The movement dynamically used all media at its disposal, from books, magazines and pamphlets to internet sites. Noha Mellor has admirably unraveled its media strategy, which makes her study vital for historians, social scientists, and media researchers seeking to understand modern Egypt and its Islamist movements”.

Uri M. Kupferschmidt, Professor, University of Haifa, Israel


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