The Middle East's Self-Proclaimed Islamic State in Power: Ideology, Politics, and Governance

This thesis highlights how the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's political ideology evolved from a religious movement to a powerful and violent political party , and how they affected the politics of the Middle East, Whereas many arguments continue to occur about the nature of the events and factors that led to the MB's emergence, as well as attempts to seize power in the Middle East, its prevalence and frequency, and public dissatisfaction with the religious-political movement. I will also prove the direct links between the Islamic political parties represented by ISIS, Hamas, Al-Qaeda,and the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the nucleus of many of these parties, particularly in the MENA region and the world. Since the Muslim Brotherhood emergence in 1928, the Egyptian regime and its army has somehow reflected the way the various Arab regimes deal with the Brotherhood within their own countries, accusing them of committing spying actions for the interest of Western countries through international intelligence services and pursuing foreign agendas, pretending to be an ideological shift toward "moderation." However, my research reveals that the Muslim Brotherhood's and associated political parties' behavior is aimed not only at integrating into political systems within the framework of democratic states but proposing an alternative religious state that excludes all and rejects pluralism, as the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to alter the shape and fabric of the Middle East. Keywords: Islamic Parties, Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, Islamists, Arab Spring