The orphan scandal : Christian missionaries and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood / Beth Baron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baron, Beth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt).

Missions--Egypt--History--20th century.

Missions.

Missions to Muslims--Egypt--History--20th century.

Missions to Muslims.

Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt)--History.

Orphans--Services for--Egypt--History--20th century.

Orphans.

Public welfare--Egypt--History--20th century.

Public welfare.

History.

Orphans--Services for.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

xxi, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

On a sweltering morning in 1933, a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence led to a beating-but little did anyone realize that day that it would also lead to the end of mast foreign missions in Egypt and contribute to the rise of Islamist organizations. This is a great story of unintended consequences: Christian missionaries came to Egypt to convert and provide social services for children. Their actions ultimately inspired the development of the Muslim Brotherhood and similar Islamist groups. Exploring the historical aims of these Christian missions and the early efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood, Beth Baron shows how the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded Islamist associations developed alongside and in reaction to the influx of missionaries. Patterning their organization and social welfare projects on the early success of the Christian missions, the Brotherhood launched their own efforts to "save" children and provide for the orphaned, abandoned, and poor. In battling for Egypt's children, Islamic activists created a network of social welfare institutions and a template for social action across the country-the effects of which, we now know, would only gain power and influence across the country in the decades to come. Book jacket.

Contents:

Prologue : the Turkiyya Hasan affair

Part I. The best of intentions : evangelicals on the Nile. Forgotten children : caring for the orphaned and abandoned

Winning souls for Christ : American Presbyterians in Cairo

Speaking in tongues : Pentecostal revival in Asyut

Nothing less than a miracle : the Swedish Salaam Mission of Port Said

Part II. Unintended consequences : Islamists and the state. Fight them with their own weapons : the origins of the Muslim Brotherhood

Combating conversion : the expansion of the anti-missionary movement

Crackdown : suppressing the League for the Defense of Islam

The battle for Egypt's orphans : toward a Muslim welfare state.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-240) and index.

ISBN:

9780804790765

0804790760

9780804791380

0804791384

OCLC:

865536975