The Rise and Fall of the Muslim Brotherhood -The Problem of Political Institutionalization in Islamic Movements-

Abstract

This work, which emerged with the revision of Muhammed Hüseyin Mercan's doctoral thesis, deals with the problem of institutionalization in Islamic movements through the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the founder and most important movement in the Islamic world. The necessity of examining the level of institutionalization of Islamic movements, as they operate as a political institution in terms of their political agenda and social base, is stated as the main argument of the study. In addition, the questions of how the Muslim Brotherhood used its institutionalization ability to overcome the problems it experienced in its nearly 90-year history and how the areas where institutionalization failed to affect the general policy of the organization were expressed as the main questions sought to be answered in the study.