The Transformation of the Muslim Brotherhood: Disintegration of Ideology and the End of the Organization..book review
Tahawolat Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimin: Tafakok Al-Ideologia Wa Nehayet Al-Tanzeem (The Transformation of the Muslim Brotherhood: Disintegration of Ideology and the End of the Organization) by Hossam Tamam Madbouli, 2006
In this collection of essays, Hossam Tamam, a journalist who specializes in covering Egypt’s Islamist groups, attempts to deconstruct the conventional image of the outlawed but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood. By dissecting the group’s internal structure, he argues that the nation’s oldest Islamist opposition group is on the verge of a significant overhaul that may ultimately end in its transformation into a modern political party.
The book includes several detailed interviews with the group’s Supreme Guide, Mohamed Mahdi Akef, as well as Abdel Moneim Abouel Fottouh, who leads the group’s reform camp, and Abu El-Ela Madi, who broke ranks with the group and is trying to form Al-Wasat Party, the Islamist-leaning would-be party trying now to attract Coptic and secular members.
The book was released before the conclusion of the parliamentary elections that witnessed the group’s rise as the biggest opposition bloc in the People’s Assembly.