Islam and the struggle over political legitimacy in Egypt: The 1987 elections through the lenses of alLiwa’ al-Islami and Liwa’ al-Islam

The 1987 parliamentary elections in Egypt, held at a time of Islamization and relative political liberalization, resulted in a significant number of seats for the Muslim Brotherhood. Consequently, the political cards were shuffled and the regime and the Brotherhood became involved in a struggle over...

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Main Author:	Kiki Santing
Format:	Article
Language:	deu
Published:	FU Berlin, University of Erfurt 2020-07-01
Series:	Global Media Journal: German Edition
Subjects:	muslim brotherhood mubarak egypt legitimacy political islam
Online Access:	https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00050178/GMJ19_Santing.pdf

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spelling	doaj-d224f5b35607494797817db45c7496822021-09-02T12:54:11ZdeuFU Berlin, University of ErfurtGlobal Media Journal: German Edition2196-48072020-07-0110110.22032/dbt.44938Islam and the struggle over political legitimacy in Egypt: The 1987 elections through the lenses of alLiwa’ al-Islami and Liwa’ al-IslamKiki Santing0University of GroningenThe 1987 parliamentary elections in Egypt, held at a time of Islamization and relative political liberalization, resulted in a significant number of seats for the Muslim Brotherhood. Consequently, the political cards were shuffled and the regime and the Brotherhood became involved in a struggle over legitimacy, in which Islam played a central part. Through qualitative content analysis, this paper studies how, in the context of the 1987 elections, Islam was instrumentalized in the struggle over political legitimacy in the governmental journal al-Liwa’ al-Islami and its regimecritical counterpart Liwa’ al-Islam, the latter of which was launched ten days after the first session of Parliament was held. Although the two journals performed different roles, there were many similarities in how both viewed political Islam. I argue that these shared Islamic values functioned as an instrument to connect people and added to the legitimacy of both the regime and the Brotherhood.https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00050178/GMJ19_Santing.pdfmuslim brotherhoodmubarakegyptlegitimacypolitical islam
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title	Islam and the struggle over political legitimacy in Egypt: The 1987 elections through the lenses of alLiwa’ al-Islami and Liwa’ al-Islam
title_short	Islam and the struggle over political legitimacy in Egypt: The 1987 elections through the lenses of alLiwa’ al-Islami and Liwa’ al-Islam
title_full	Islam and the struggle over political legitimacy in Egypt: The 1987 elections through the lenses of alLiwa’ al-Islami and Liwa’ al-Islam
title_fullStr	Islam and the struggle over political legitimacy in Egypt: The 1987 elections through the lenses of alLiwa’ al-Islami and Liwa’ al-Islam
title_full_unstemmed	Islam and the struggle over political legitimacy in Egypt: The 1987 elections through the lenses of alLiwa’ al-Islami and Liwa’ al-Islam
title_sort	islam and the struggle over political legitimacy in egypt: the 1987 elections through the lenses of alliwa’ al-islami and liwa’ al-islam
publisher	FU Berlin, University of Erfurt
series	Global Media Journal: German Edition
issn	2196-4807
publishDate	2020-07-01
description	The 1987 parliamentary elections in Egypt, held at a time of Islamization and relative political liberalization, resulted in a significant number of seats for the Muslim Brotherhood. Consequently, the political cards were shuffled and the regime and the Brotherhood became involved in a struggle over legitimacy, in which Islam played a central part. Through qualitative content analysis, this paper studies how, in the context of the 1987 elections, Islam was instrumentalized in the struggle over political legitimacy in the governmental journal al-Liwa’ al-Islami and its regimecritical counterpart Liwa’ al-Islam, the latter of which was launched ten days after the first session of Parliament was held. Although the two journals performed different roles, there were many similarities in how both viewed political Islam. I argue that these shared Islamic values functioned as an instrument to connect people and added to the legitimacy of both the regime and the Brotherhood.
topic	muslim brotherhood mubarak egypt legitimacy political islam
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Islam and the struggle over political legitimacy in Egypt: The 1987 elections through the lenses of alLiwa’ al-Islami and Liwa’ al-Islam

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