Martyn Frampton is Reader in Modern History at Queen Mary University of London.
Rigorous yet absorbing… [Frampton’s] book fills a crucial gap in
the literature and will be essential reading not just for scholars,
but for anyone seeking to understand the ever-problematic
relationship between religion and politics in today’s Middle
East.
*Financial Times*
Breaks new ground by examining the links between the Egyptian
Brotherhood’s relations with Britain and, when it became the chief
Western influence in the Middle East soon after the Second World
War, with the United States.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Frampton exhaustively chronicles the history of the Muslim
Brotherhood from its founding in 1928 to the Arab Spring of
2011.
*Foreign Affairs*
The West and the Brothers will continue to have a complex
relationship. To explain that relationship, one must go beyond the
rhetoric of a modernizing secular West and a conservative
anti-modern Islamist trend. Frampton provides ample evidence to
suggest that collision may not be inevitable, showing how it can
give way to engagement and dialogue… [Full of] rich historical
details of intricate relationships and intrigues.
*Times Higher Education*
Timely, comprehensive, detailed, and skilled, Frampton’s work will
stand as the classic history of the Brotherhood’s relationship with
the West.
*Beth Baron, Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern
American Center, City University of New York*
Rigorously examined and thought-provoking. A pioneering study with
a wealth of solid historical evidence.
*Hazem Kandil, University of Cambridge*
To grasp fully the significance of what is happening in the Arab
world today you need to understand political Islamism within the
context of the region’s broader history. This elegant, rigorous,
and timely account of Western engagement with the Muslim
Brotherhood over the last 80 years is an essential aid to building
understanding and dispelling confusion. Anyone who makes policy on
the region should read it.
*Sir John Jenkins, former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia*
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