The author examines the ideological history of the Muslim Brotherhood from its genesis in 1928 until 1953, the date Egypt declared itself a republic after 70 years of British domination. He treats this history as a case study and employs Gramscian theory to interpret his findings. He then applies analytic generalization to the resulting observations to determine how his research might amplify Gramsci's ideas. Finally, he argues that the Brotherhood produced an Islamic ideology that expands Gramscian thought pursuant to national governance, cultural criticism, formal education, and military defense.
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