Sixth Study : The Muslim Brotherhood Between Expansion and Decline ( The Egyptian Case )
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2022
الناشر: مركز تريندز للبحوث والاستشارات
نبذة الناشر:The Muslim Brotherhood witnessed a rapid expansion within a few years of its founding in 1928. After the group moved to Cairo in 1932, it managed to open more than 100 branches by 1936, and by the late 1930s, it went up to 400 branches. The rate of expansion and ...influence doubled during the 1940s, bringing the number of branches to 2,000 by 1949, and the number of affiliates to around 300,000 to 600,000.
Several factors helped the MBG to expand within the Egyptian society in its different segments and components. On the other hand, the group took advantage of the political opportunities offered by the successive Egyptian regimes, and devised a unique administrative system characterized by centralized decision-making and based on loyalty and secrecy, and linking ideology with practice.
The MBG adopted social engineering through which it made sure to win the hearts and minds of the working class, which helped it mobilize and recruit them for its goals, using several means, the most important of which are Da'wah, education, media, social services, economic institutions, and even violence.
The MBG managed to use civil society to serve its political goals, to attract new members on the one hand, and to achieve mass mobilization in the elections that the group run for, whether at the level of local, parliamentary or presidential elections on the other hand.
The group adopted a policy of proximity by trying to get closer to people in residential areas, labour centers and markets, in order to consolidate relations of solidarity and support, and to fill the void left by the state, by establishing a network of charities targetting the fields of education, health and social services. إقرأ المزيد