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Mitchell, Society of the Muslim Brothers, pp. 209-259
Reading Questions
1. What are the MB’s primary criticisms of the traditional scholarly establishment as exemplified
by al-Azhar and the Sufi Orders?
2. Why is Egypt special in the MB’s thought and what are its primary economic maladies according to them?
3. What are the pluses and minuses of Western Civilization (here defined as the U.S., Britain, and
Russia) according to the MB?
4. How does the MB’s definition of true or pure Islam differ from the Islam of other Muslims
around them?
5. What do the MB intend by their idea of an “Islamic Order”?
6. How do the MB define Shari’a. How do they want to reform existing understandings of it?
7. How does the concept of “shūra” (consultation) figure into the MB’s ideal political order? How
does it function?
8. What are the role, rights of, and restrictions upon women in the MB’s ideal society?
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