Black Box … Years of confrontation (5)

Brotherhood from Hassan al-Banna to Mahdi Akef

In the previous two episodes, we briefly reviewed some of the books penned by journalist and distinguished Islamist groups' specialist, Abdelrahim Ali.

These books inflamed the battle between Ali and the obscurantists. This battle also opened the door for an edict encouraging Ali's opponents to liquidate him. 

Ali did not pay attention to any of these edicts. 

However, the southern Egyptian blood in him appeared. After all, how can a sane person threaten a southern Egyptian with death? 

This is probably one of the reasons why groups making such edicts always come against a hard wall. They are not Egyptian. They are not familiar with Egyptians' qualities, even as they claim the contrast. 

We return to the battle sparked by Ali's writing and books, which reached its highest pitch between Ali and the Muslim Brotherhood when the former gave readers a book that could be considered a reference to those who wanted to know the history of this movement. 

He then followed this book with a series of other publications that reviewed the opportunism that appeared clearly in tracking the Brotherhood's relations with the palace and al-Wafd, the majority party. 

The same opportunism was also manifested in the movement's relations with minority parties before the July revolution and then their dealings with the leaders of the July revolution, the regime of the late President Anwar Sadat and the late president Hosni Mubarak.

13 – Name of the book: 'Brotherhood from Hassan al-Banna to Mahdi Akef

This book monitors and analyzes the history of the Brotherhood by making a journey into over three quarters of a century of the movement's history. 

It dwells on the most important and major stations and tribulations in the history of the group, as well as the position of the Brotherhood on the concepts of partisanship, pluralism, democracy, state, civil, Copts and freedom of opinion and expression. The book then passes through the most important literature of the group and its internal regulations and its organizational and kinetic development and growth, along with its and tidal relations (conflict and calm). 

With the successive regimes in Egypt throughout those periods from the era of Ahmed Fouad until the era of Mubarak, the book also examines relations between two generations of the old guard and the septuagenarian current, up to the most important questions about the nature of relations between religion and politics. 

The book also monitors and analyzes the professional and intellectual framework together, and looks at the secrets of the discourse that is being presented, one that is overpowered by the emotional tendency in condemnation, which leads to a negative reflection on the recipient? 

14 - Name of the book: 'Al-Qaeda: 20 and the conquest still continues'

The eighth part of the Encyclopedia of Islamic Movements was issued through cooperation between the Arab Center for the Study of Islamic Movements and al-Mahrousa Center for Publishing and Information. 

The book deals with the story of al-Qaeda which was able to transform during the last five years, following the 9/11 attacks, from a traditional structural organization to a state that applies in the minds of many Muslim youths. It jumped to a stage of development that no other ideological organization has ever reached in the modern era.

15- Name of the book: 'Road to Ittihadiya'

This book dwells on ambiguous relations between the Brotherhood and people in authority, starting from the case of al-Noqrashi Pasha. It explains how the Brotherhood understood these relations, their foundations, and the goals behind them. 

The different sections of the book raise the big question, which we see more closely related to the premises on which any conclusions that decide the framework, vision and direction of public opinion in dealing with political Islam movements in particular, and at the heart of it is the Brotherhood, and the Brotherhood’s dealing with the Egyptian political reality since it emerged in 1928.