#Egypt’s Salafis: Inheriting the Brotherhood and Courting the Regime
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Egyptians celebrate in Tahrir square after a new constitution was approved on January 18, 2014 in the capital Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Mahmoud Khaled). Egyptians celebrate in Tahrir square after a new constitution was approved on January 18, 2014 in the capital Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Mahmoud Khaled).
In the midst of its scramble to inherit the #Muslim_Brotherhood, the Salafi #Nour_Party of Egypt is dithering between the challenges of maintaining its ideological consistency and expanding its role. The Nour Party has to safeguard its call for the bottom-up “Salafization” of society against the backdrop of the current regime’s anti-Islamist attitudes and counter-tensions from the Muslim Brotherhood. (...)
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