Are they democrats? Does it matter?

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 19-24

  Masoud, Tarek ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 49149108534     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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2. Muhammad Mahdi Akef speech, 12 October 2005. Available at www.ikhwanweb.com/Article.asp?ID=13336&SectionID=89.
3. Quoted in Mustafa Muhammad al-Tahhan, al-Fikr al-Islami al-Muasir: Dirasa fi Fikr al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Contemporary Islamic thought: A study in the thought of the Muslim Brotherhood) (Cairo: Dar al-Tawzia wal-Nashr al-Islamiyya, 2002), 294.
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7. Quoted in Tahhan, al-Fikr al-Islami al-Muasir, 294.
8. Of course, this was not true of Hamas in the Palestinian territories, but the special conditions of that realm - noncontiguous territories and a weak central authority - do not obtain elsewhere.
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10. See Donald M. Reid, "Political Assassination in Egypt, 1910-1954," International Journal of African Historical Studies 15, no. 4 (1982): 625-51.
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14. Mona El-Ghobashy, "The Metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers," International Journal of Middle East Studies 37 (August 2005): 373-95.
15. Sheri Berman, "Taming Extremist Parties: Lessons from Europe," Journal of Democracy 19 (January 2008): 5-18.
16. nd ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1978), 160.
17. Minutes of the Ninth People's Assembly, Session 1, Meeting 24, 21 February 2006.
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