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The Islamists' political rise in Arab countries has often been explained by their capacity to provide social services, representing a challenge to the legitimacy of neoliberal states. Few studies, however, have addressed how this social action was provided, and how it engendered popular political support for Islamist organizations. Most of the time the links between social services and Islamist groups have been taken as given, rather than empirically examined, with studies of specific Islamist organizations tending to focus on their internal patterns of sectarian mobilization and the ideological indoctrination of committed members. Taking the case of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB), this book offers a groundbreaking ethnography of Islamist everyday politics and social action in three districts of Greater Cairo. Based on long-term fieldwork among grassroots networks and on interviews with MB deputies, members, and beneficiaries, it shows how the MB operated on a day-to-day basis in society, through social brokering, constituent relations, and popular outreach. How did ordinary MB members concretely relate to local populations in the neighborhoods where they lived? What kinds of social services did they deliver? How did they experience belonging to the Brotherhood and how this membership fit in with their other social identities? Finally, what political effects did their social action entail, both in terms of popular support and of contestation or cooperation with the state? Nuanced, theoretically eclectic, and empirically rich, The Muslim Brothers in Society reveals the fragile balances on which the Muslim Brotherhood's political and social action was based and shows how these balances were disrupted after the January 2011 uprising. It provides an alternative way of understanding their historical failure in 2013.

Islam and politics --- Islam --- Politics and Islam --- Political science --- Political aspects --- Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt) --- Moslem Brotherhood (Egypt) --- Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt) --- Society of the Muslim Brothers (Egypt) --- Müslüman Kardeşler Teşkilâtı (Egypt) --- İhvan-ı Müslimin (Egypt) --- Aḥim ha-Muslemim (Egypt) --- Ikhwān al-Muslimūn (Egypt) --- Frères musulmans (Egypt) --- Moslem Brothers (Egypt) --- Mifleget ha-El (Egypt) --- Party of God (Egypt) --- Ḥavurah ha-Islamit (Egypt) --- Islamic Community (Egypt) --- Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt) --- Bracia Muzułmanie (Egypt) --- Muslim Brothers (Egypt) --- Muslimbruderschaft (Egypt) --- جامعة الاخوان المسلمين (Egypt) --- جماعة الإخوان المسلمين (Egypt) --- جمعيات الإخوان المسلمين (مصر) --- جمعية الإخوان المسلمين --- جمعية الإخوان المسلين (Egypt ) --- جمعية الاخوان المسلمين (Egypt) --- جمعية الاخوان المسلمين، مصر --- جمعية الاخوان المسلين --- جمعية الاخوان المسلين (طگيپت) --- جمعية الاخوان المسلين (مصر) --- جمعية الٳخوان المسلمين (مصر) --- Fratelli musulmani (Egypt) --- Ikhwanul Muslimin (Egypt) --- Hermanos Musulmanes (Egypt) --- Sociedad de los Hermanos Musulmanes (Egypt) --- Ik̲h̲vānulmuslimūn (Egypt) --- اخوان المسلمون (Egypt) --- Ik̲h̲vān al-Muslimīn (Egypt) --- اخوان المسلمين (Egypt) --- Egypt --- History --- Politics and government