Role of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt's 2011 Revolution in the Light of the Structure- Agency Relationship

Egypt's upheavals in 2011 that led to overthrow the ruling regime and beginning a new period in this country’s political system, as a revolution have reasons for its occurrence, grounds, results, consequences and agents.This paper attempts to answer this question that how Muslim Brotherhood, as a social and political force, has been influential in advancing the Egypt's revolution. In response to this question, this hypothesis is provided that Muslim Brotherhood, by adoptying Islamic ideology and political and social organizing during all of its activities with an attitude derived from Islamic tradition and some of modern norms as existing cultural and social contexts has had an effective role in the Egypt's 2011 Revolution. To examine this hypothesis, the concept of structure – agent relationship has been used in which the Muslim Brotherhood as an agent and the Egypt's social culture as the structure and context of the action is considered.