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AbstractFrom the 1980s, revisionist Sunni Islamist thinkers have engaged in a hermeneutical effort to argue for the full acceptance of non-Muslims as equal political participants and citizens in an Islamic polity. A key text in their argument is the so-called Constitution of Medina, regulating the interaction between the newly arrived followers of Muhammad and the existing tribes in Medina who were either polytheists or Jews. This paper investigates the sira literature of Muslim Brotherhood in order to gauge the degree to which the life of the Prophet has been reinterpreted to enable such novel readings. It analyzes three popular Muslim Brotherhood siras, by the Syrian Mustafa al-Sibai (1960s), the Egyptian Muhammad al-Ghazzali (1980s), and the Libyan Ali al-Sallabi (2000s). The paper detects important developments in these siras' treatments of Muhammad's engagement with non-Muslims—including their interpretations of the Constitution of Medina. These developments, however, do not reflect the radical rethinking of civil society and civility found in the abovementioned revisionist Islamist literature; rather, they evince a more classical Islamist interest in the Prophet as a propagator of Islam as a law and system. That said, this sira literature should be viewed as a genre aiming at the ideological education of brotherhood members, rather than the theoretical exploration of political theory.

Set i tilbageblik var 2012 islamisternes år i Mellem-østen. Revolutionerne i året forinden havde ført til dramatiske magtskifter i enkelte lande, kontrollerede overdragelser i andre, og borgerkrig i atter andre.

When in June 2013 the cultural production environment mobilized against President Morsi and his minister of culture, this turned out to be a prelude to massive popular demonstrations and the removal of Morsi by the army. But what were the cultural policies of the Morsi government all about? The article traces the cultural policy agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party, and the major controversies they engendered when in power. It argues that Islamization of cultural life may have been a long-term goal, but not a priority in the Morsi government which, on the other hand, at the end of its reign clumsily pursued a policy of "ikhwanization." Focusing on two controversial films about Egypt's Jews and Copts, respectively, it discusses revisionist accounts of the minority issue that has emerged after the revolution, and the Morsi government's position on it.

Den 6. november 2007 modtog Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, der er direktør for Det Dansk- Egyptiske Dialog Institut i Cairo, Ebbe Muncks Hæderspris.




I sin takketale redegjorde Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen for nogle af de oplevelser han havde haft og de tanker han havde gjort sig om krisen om Muhammedtegningerne, som den tog sig ud i orkanens øje – i Cairo. Udenrigs har fået lov til at trykke det lille essay, og vi bringer det uredigeret og i sin helhed.

Intet resumé

Outlines relationships between the political and religious establishments in Sunni community of Beirut, Lebanon, since 1946, focusing on the emergence of a new religious group, the Ahbash.

Al-Azhar er en central del af den autoritære egyptiske stats magtapparat, og universitetets betydning er vokset de senere årtier. I de nye mediers tidsalder er det dog mere al-Azhars navn end shaykhernes gavn, som regimet efterspørger. Og den TVstation, som er opkaldt efter al-Azhar, har vist sig en hel del bedre til at gebærde sig i det stadigt mere liberale TV-landskab end al-Azhar selv. Ikke mindst i de vanskelige dage i februar 2011.