Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The thought of the Muslim Brotherhood, at the center of Orthodox Islam -- PART ONE FINDING CONTINUITY IN AN UNUSUAL AND TUMULTUOUS HISTORY -- Chapter One The founding of the Brotherhood -- 1. Emergence during the 1930's: da'wah, mode of life and reform -- 2. The 1940's: political involvement, militarization, and growth of the movement -- 3. The mid-1950's: repression and opposition, migration and radicalization -- Chapter Two The contemporary Brotherhood -- 1. The 1970's and 1980's: differentiation and reappropriation -- 2. The 1980's: attempts at internationalization -- 3. The 1990's: legalism and spillover from initial MB dynamic -- 4. After 2000: toward a stabilized representative character, beyond internal questioning? -- Chapter Three Migration and implantation in Europe -- 1. The confluence of different histories and sociological generations -- 2. Organizational structures -- 3. Diffusion and circulation in the production of meaning -- 4. The importance of the Muslim Brotherhood today in the Muslim communities of Europe -- PART TWO A DIVERSE HERITAGE, MARKED BY A SUCCESSION OF OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES -- Chapter Four The unchallenged foundational contribution of Hassan al-Bannä -- 1. The importance of his writings and their content -- 2. The importance of his personality -- Chapter Five The thought of Sayyid Qutb: difficult to avoid, but discreetly controversial -- 1. A specific continuity relative to Hassan Al-Bannä -- 2. Internal controversy -- 3. The persistence of the influence of his thought up to the present day -- Chapter Six Other classic intellectual fi gures -- 1. Muhammad Al-Ghazäli -- 2. Mustafä Al-Sibä'ï, Sa'ïd Hawwä and Sayyid Säbiq -- Chapter Seven Historical references from within the movement -- 1. Various organizational leaders, including Sa'ïd Ramadän -- 2. Zeinab Al-Ghazali.

Chapter Eight Living fi gures of reference -- 1. Figures of reference outside Europe -- 2. Figures of reference who act as bridges between East and West -- 3. Figures of reference within Europe -- Chapter Nine A dynamic tradition more or less held in check -- 1. A line of descent of witnesses, a reservoir of meaning -- 2. A tradition that is relatively open, but not openly debated -- 3. Labors related to selection and uniformity, by the organizational majority -- 4. Promotion of contextual adaptation, to the detriment of the homogeneity of the movement? -- PART THREE IDEAS THAT LEAD TO ACTION -- Chapter Ten Two complementary versions of the movement's heritage -- 1. A praxeology -- 2. A vision of the world -- Chapter Eleven The brotherhood through action -- 1. Profundity of faith and understanding of the message -- 2. Training and organization -- 3. Effort, action and setting an example -- Chapter Twelve Framework principles for the Muslim community -- 1. Islam as a way of life: a great classic -- 2. A gradual reform, from now on limited? -- 3. The preservation of the unity of the Umma as an ideal objective -- Chapter Thirteen Morals and social life -- 1. Three approaches to the theme of jihad (and the theme of sacrifice) -- 2. A brake on gender role-mixing and cultural mixing, or even a bridle -- 3. The zakät as a principle of social justice -- 4. Framing the community using a structural dynamic of relative jurisprudence -- Chapter Fourteen Discourses regarding ultimate purposes and the relationships between diff erent civilizations -- 1. The vitality and superiority of Islam -- 2. Changes nonetheless in perspective with regard to the West -- 3. Good stewardship of the earth and relationships with other persons -- 4. In favor of recognition in the light of past and future history -- Chapter Fifteen Concrete political projects?.

1. A generally abstract relation to politics -- 2. The abstract ideal reference to an Islamic system, and the diffusion of this idea -- 3. The question of the caliphate, in suspense -- 4. Mentioning the theme of revolution -- Chapter Sixteen Strong but confused ideas -- 1. Comprehensive way = globality of Islam: what does this mean? -- 2. Difficulties involved in thinking of oneself as a member of a minority among other minorities -- 3. Confusion concerning connection to the modern salafiyya current of thought and hidden tensions with the Wahhabi-salafists -- 4. Nebulous, transitory ideas? -- Conclusion -- Sources -- 1. Original sources -- a. List of interviews and profi les of persons interviewed -- b. Conferences, various presentations and interviews -- 2. Documents -- a. Newspapers, periodicals, magazines and booklets -- b. Websites (organisations and press organs) -- c. Articles, cassettes and books from authors more or less closed to the mouvance of the Muslim Brotherhood -- Bibliography-Selection of secondary sources -- Appendix-The twenty principles of Islamic understanding according to Hassan Al-Bannä, comparison of the titles of two books -- Indices -- Thematic index -- Index of names -- Index of organisations and ideological movements -- Index of written medias.