Many writers and researchers tend to either look into the Islamic phenomenon as a whole or focus on one of its manifestations (Muslim Brotherhood; traditional Salafis; Jihadist Salafis) without considering other manifestations. This book seeks to look into unity and diversity within contemporary Islamic movements in Egypt. On one hand, the book examines the movement’s paths and its branching into different trends, and on the other hand, it examines the general umbrella of the whole phenomenon. This will be within a social-historical context focusing on the role of ideology in establishing political and social trends.

This book is a collection of studies by several researchers edited by Mostafa Abdel Zaher.

It highlights the patterns of Islamists and the factors behind the raise of political Islamic movements, from the establishment of Muslim Brotherhood to the period after July 2013 in four chapters: the first chapter is devoted to the experiment of the Muslim Brotherhood. The second chapters is for the social structures of Islamic youth in developmental work, students’ activities and simulations models, with a study on the pattern of “column Sheikh” school. The third chapter is for Salafis; their divisions and pragmatic concept of politics – with the transformations of each division after January Revolution and Rabaa events. The last chapter is for the Jihadist movements.

The book is only 152 pages. It is like a mapping of the Islamists’ divisions and a memory of the period before January 2011 to post July 2013.