From Resistance to Mainstream Power: The Changing ‘Islam’ of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Dr. Eltantawi will discuss her research on the “political theology” of the Muslim Brotherhood by giving a genealogy of the Muslim Brotherhood's conception of Islam and Islamic law from the creation of the group in 1928, through the period they were forced underground (latter half of 20th century) to their current political manifestation as The Freedom and Justice Party (Al-Huriyya w’al ʼAdaala).