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- Title
Egypt, Islamists, and the Internet: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood and Its Rhetoric of Dialectics in Ikhwanweb.
- Authors
Bardhan, Soumia
- Abstract
This essay offers an ideological analysis of the rhetoric of the Islamist Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood ( MB) in its official English-language Web site, Ikhwanweb, between 2005 and 2010 - years preceding the Egyptian uprising of January 2011. The purpose was to examine the ideology manifest in the rhetoric and uncover the instrumental function the rhetoric served. Analysis brought forth a post-Islamist ideology manifest through a rhetoric of dialectics. The instrumental function of the Egyptian MB's rhetoric in Ikhwanweb was to alter Western societies' monolithic understanding of Islamism - radical, undemocratic, inflexible. The cyber-rhetoric was also used as a means to disapprove certain Western agents' support for authoritarian regimes. During Mubarak's rule, Ikhwanweb was used as a communicative medium to demonstrate to the West the Egyptian MB's need to be valued - respected regardless of ideological differences, understood rather than essentialized, stereotyped, and prejudged, and supported as a pragmatic, political entity within Egypt.
- Subjects
JAMIYAT al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Egypt); DIALECTIC; INTERNET &; politics; ISLAMISTS; ISLAM &; politics; PEASANT uprisings; IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL participation
- Publication
DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 2, p235
- ISSN
1060-4367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/dome.12049