Vorwort; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliterations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Phenomenon and Research Goal; 1.2 Overview and Critique of the Literature; 1.2.1 Literature on the Growing Popularity of Islamism; 1.2.2 Literature on the Development of Islamist Movements; 1.3 An Alternative Approach; 1.4 Goals of this Study; 1.5 Method; 1.6 Structure of the Dissertation; Introducing the State and the Muslim Brotherhood; 2 The State and the Brotherhood under Nasser and Sadat (1954-1981); 2.1 The State; 2.1.1 The Corporatist Nature of the State; 2.1.2 Legitimatory Discourses of the State

2.2 The Muslim Brotherhood2.2.1 The Muslim Brotherhood from its Foundation to Nasser's Presidency; 2.2.2 The Muslim Brotherhood under Nasser and Sadat; The Brotherhood and the War of Position (1981-2011); 3 Period 1 (1981-1987): Limited Mutual Tolerance and Goodwill; 3.1 Mubarak's Politics of Tolerance and the Brotherhood's Entering of Institutions; 3.1.1 New Style of Presidency, Old Pillars of Rule; 3.1.2 Mubarak and the Islamists; 3.1.3 The Brotherhood Starting its March through the Institutions; 3.2 Ideational Conciliation; 3.2.1 The State's Portrayal of the Brotherhood

3.2.2 The Self-Portrayal of the Brotherhood3.3 The Brotherhood by the mid-1980ies; 4 Period 2 (1987-1995): Increasing Tension; 4.1 The Brotherhood's Powerful Performance in the Institutions and the State's Efforts at Containment ; 4.1.1 Domestic Crisis; 4.1.2 The Brotherhood's Growing Political Weight; 4.1.3 The State Setting out to Curb the Brothers' Influence; 4.2 Ideational Confrontation; 4.2.1 The State's Portrayal of the Brotherhood; 4.2.2 The Self-Portrayal of the Brotherhood; 4.3 The Brotherhood by the mid-1990ies; 5 Period 3 (1995-2000): Repression and Silencing

5.1 Squashing the Brotherhood in the Institutions5.1.1 Continuing Domestic Crisis; 5.1.2 Repression and Exclusion of the Brotherhood; 5.2 Ideational Repression; 5.2.1 The State's Portrayal of the Brotherhood; 5.2.2 The Self-Portrayal of the Brotherhood; 5.3 The Brotherhood by the End of the 1990ies; 6 Period 4 (2000-2011): The War of Position at its Peak; 6.1 Political Liberalization and Deliberalization and the Brotherhood's Strong Return to the Political Scene; 6.1.1 The Opening Up of Political Space; 6.1.2 The Closure of Political Space and the Brothers in Defiance

6.2 The Intensification of the Ideational Struggle6.2.1 The State's Portrayal of the Brotherhood; 6.2.2 The Self-Portrayal of the Brotherhood; 6.3 The Brotherhood in the First Decade of the 21st Century; 7 Conclusion; 8 Postscript: Lessons to be Learned for the postMubarak Era?; Appendix; A: Chronological Chart of the Primary Sources used for the Content Analysis
Self-Portrayal of the Muslim Brotherhood ; B: Chronological Chart of the Primary Sources used for the Content Analysis
the State's Portrayal of the Brotherhood ; Bibliography