| #1027706 in Books | Carrie Rosefsky Wickham | 2002-10-15 | 2002-12-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.74 x6.00l,.98 | File type: PDF | 300 pages | Mobilizing Islam Religion Activism and Political Change in Egypt||12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Fabulous book|By A Customer|This book is an excellent account of the rise of the most important opposition movement in Egypt since the 1952 revolution. While its discussion of the last 8 years is unfortunately a bit truncated, this is probably one of the best texts out there to study a major islamic political movement in its proper context. What the author successfully does i||Intellectually ambitious. (Middle East Journal)
Mobilizing Islam is easily one of the best books on Islamic activism. Wickham's use of social movement theory and remarkable fieldwork produced a book that speaks to area specialists and
Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering important and surprising answers to a series of pressing questions. Under what conditions does mobilization by opposition groups become possible in authoritarian settings? Why did Islamist groups have more success attracting recruits and overcoming governmental restraints than their secular rivals? And...
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