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Title
Ideological transformation of Egypt's largest militant groups |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23632 |
Date
2017 |
Author(s)
Ibrahim, Mahmoud Awad Attiya |
Contributor(s)
Gorman, Anthony; Stein, Ewan |
Abstract
This thesis discusses the revisions of the Egyptian Islamic Group and al-Jihad Organisation with a
special focus on the theology and ideology of the two movements. The main question is: how
could these groups revise their thought using Islamic theological arguments though their
previous pro-violence thought was also based on Islamic theological arguments. Textual
analysis, coupled with the relevant aspects of framing literature, is the main tool used to discuss
the ideology of the two groups and answer the research questions. Yet, the thesis also provided
extended literature review of the topic as well as historical sociopolitical and economic accounts
of the two organisations in order situate the texts in their proper contexts and link thought to
action.
The thesis provides detailed description and analysis of the two groups' ideologies and
concludes that one of them has genuinely revised its thought while the other has not. After
explaining how this change has happened in theological textual as well as in framing terms, the
thesis provides an analysis on why one group could change while the other could not. The thesis
shows the level of change in any Jihadist movement thought corresponds with the level of
concepts it transfers from the static to the flexible sides of the Sharia, and that the nature and
original objectives of each group at the time of its establishment play a great role in any revision
process when violence proves counterproductive to the original objectives of that group.
The thesis also proves that it is not just the ideas or ideological arguments that matter but also
the process through which these ideas and arguments are framed. In addition, the fact that only
one of the two groups has genuinely changed while both have undergone the same structural
sociopolitical and economic conditions in the same country shows the failure of structural
sociopolitical and economic approaches in explaining the reasons of violence and revisions of
Islamist movements in causal terms, and illustrates the ability of the textual approach to reveal
facts and secrets that other approaches could not |
Subject(s)
revisions; al-Jihad Organisation; Egyptian Islamic Group; Islamic Group; political Islam; jihad |
Language
en |
Publisher
The University of Edinburgh |
Type of publication
Thesis or Dissertation; Doctoral; PhD Doctor of Philosophy |
Format
application/pdf |
Repository
Edinburgh - University of Edinburgh
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