Conclusion

Abstract

This book has sought to analyse how the way the Muslim Brotherhood has presented itself to the Egyptian people – via its behaviour and ideology – has changed under the rule of Mubarak. The study has set out with the following in mind: (a) that the Brotherhood’s behaviour and ideology are shaped in a dynamic process of mutual interaction with the state; (b) that ideational aspects of this interaction should be incorporated into the analysis (so far material factors of state Islamist interactions prevail in the literature); and (c) that an inductive approach should be adopted for the analysis of the Brotherhood’s ideology.