Héritage, transmission, organisations dans la mouvance des Frères musulmans : dynamiques européennes et implantations nationales (Belgique, France, Grande-Bretagne)
Muslim Brotherhood members arrived in Europe especially from the 1960's. Their history and situation on the European continent are difficult to grasp due to their various origins and their integration within different national contexts where they have to consider different sensibilities and practices. The Muslim Brothers are marked by this life experience in societies where they are a minority. By building up specific dynamics, sometimes heterogeneous, they are trying to be heard, to make known their positions. They are being integrated within the European Islamic sphere and transform it, but they are also influencing dynamics of the global social sphere. The challenge of this PhD is to grasp the individual and collective actors who are animated by this Muslim Brotherhood's heritage to be able to present the nature of the current evolutions concerning the organisational structures and ideas. To seize the lines of tensions and the knots that are relevant in what we decide to call the movance of the Muslim Brotherhood, we choose two different angles of approach. On the one hand, due to the constant presence of past personalities and certain themes, discourses were studied in relation to their links of continuity or discontinuity to the Brotherhood heritage. On the other hand, the movance is studied from the point of view of personal belongings, organisational and relational dimensions. A specific attention is paid to the dynamics of action which are being used. This PhD is trying to summary the current dynamics. The research is based on socio-anthropological work: several dozens of interviews with European and non-European militants, especially in Belgium, France and UK but also the participation to many Islamic activities from 2000 to 2005.
Maréchal, B. (2006). Héritage, transmission, organisations dans la mouvance des Frères musulmans : dynamiques européennes et implantations nationales (Belgique, France, Grande-Bretagne). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/93738