Gudrun Krämer is Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies, Free University, Berlin.

• Introduction 1 FAMILY BACKGROUND, EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREERRural PietyEarly EducationEncountering SufismAt Dar al-‘UlumThe Impact of the Capital 2 THE SOCIETY OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERS: 1928–38Planting the Seed in Isma‘iliyyaContestation and SuspicionThe Move to CairoBuilding a BaseRecruitment and Activities 3 ENTERING THE POLITICAL STAGE: 1938–49 Looking Beyond EgyptGoing Political at HomePreparing for Jihad: Rovers and BattalionsPatrons without Clients? The Muslim Brothers, the Palace and Party PoliticsThe Second World War and its AftermathPost-War Growth and ExpansionThe Special ApparatusBreakdown: 1948–9 4 HASAN AL-BANNA: THE PIVOT OF HIS UNIVERSEBetween Shaykh and Efendi: a Social ProfileIslam Applied: an Intellectual ProfileWhat Went Wrong?The Means of ChangeOn Unity and CommunityIslam as a SystemA Moral Order, or Creating New Islamic ManThe Virtuous CityA Moral EconomyA Charismatic Community?Concluding Remarks Endnotes BibliographyIndex

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Gudrun Krämer is Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies, Free University, Berlin.

• Introduction 1 FAMILY BACKGROUND, EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREERRural PietyEarly EducationEncountering SufismAt Dar al-‘UlumThe Impact of the Capital 2 THE SOCIETY OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERS: 1928–38Planting the Seed in Isma‘iliyyaContestation and SuspicionThe Move to CairoBuilding a BaseRecruitment and Activities 3 ENTERING THE POLITICAL STAGE: 1938–49 Looking Beyond EgyptGoing Political at HomePreparing for Jihad: Rovers and BattalionsPatrons without Clients? The Muslim Brothers, the Palace and Party PoliticsThe Second World War and its AftermathPost-War Growth and ExpansionThe Special ApparatusBreakdown: 1948–9 4 HASAN AL-BANNA: THE PIVOT OF HIS UNIVERSEBetween Shaykh and Efendi: a Social ProfileIslam Applied: an Intellectual ProfileWhat Went Wrong?The Means of ChangeOn Unity and CommunityIslam as a SystemA Moral Order, or Creating New Islamic ManThe Virtuous CityA Moral EconomyA Charismatic Community?Concluding Remarks Endnotes BibliographyIndex

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Gudrun Krämer is Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies, Free University, Berlin.

• Introduction 1 FAMILY BACKGROUND, EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREERRural PietyEarly EducationEncountering SufismAt Dar al-‘UlumThe Impact of the Capital 2 THE SOCIETY OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERS: 1928–38Planting the Seed in Isma‘iliyyaContestation and SuspicionThe Move to CairoBuilding a BaseRecruitment and Activities 3 ENTERING THE POLITICAL STAGE: 1938–49 Looking Beyond EgyptGoing Political at HomePreparing for Jihad: Rovers and BattalionsPatrons without Clients? The Muslim Brothers, the Palace and Party PoliticsThe Second World War and its AftermathPost-War Growth and ExpansionThe Special ApparatusBreakdown: 1948–9 4 HASAN AL-BANNA: THE PIVOT OF HIS UNIVERSEBetween Shaykh and Efendi: a Social ProfileIslam Applied: an Intellectual ProfileWhat Went Wrong?The Means of ChangeOn Unity and CommunityIslam as a SystemA Moral Order, or Creating New Islamic ManThe Virtuous CityA Moral EconomyA Charismatic Community?Concluding Remarks Endnotes BibliographyIndex

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