From the Muslim Brotherhood to contemporary Islamism

Dr. Esther Webman, Prof. Meir Litvak

Scholars trace a direct connection between the Muslim Brotherhood and Jihadist organizations such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

What are the common characteristics of the Muslim Brotherhood and these contemporary radical groups? What place does antisemitism hold in their ideologies and actions?

References

• Euben, Roxanne L. and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from Al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009).

• Fishman, Brian H., The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory (New Haven: Yale Universtiy Press, 2016).

• Litvak, Meir, “The Anti-Semitism of Hamas,” Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture, vol. 12, nos. 2+3 (2005), pp. 41 – 47.

• Litvak, Meir and Esther Webman, “Israel and Antisemitism,” in Albert S. Lindemann and Richard S. Levy, eds., Antisemitism: A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 237 – 249.

• Maddy-Weitzman, Bruce and Meir Litvak, “Islamism and the State in North Africa,” in Barry Rubin, ed., Evolutionaries and Reformers: Contemporary Islamist Movements in the Middle East (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003), pp. 69 – 90.

• Tibi, Bassam, Islamism and Islam (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012).

• Tibi, Bassam, “From Sayyid Qutb to Hamas: The Middle East Conflict and the Islamization of Antisemitism,” in Charles Asher Small, ed., The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective (New York: ISGAP, 2015), pp. 457 – 483.

• Webman, Esther, Anti-Semitic Motifs in the Ideology of Hizballah and Hamas (Tel Aviv: Project for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Tel Aviv University).