Political Ideology and Function of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (2012-2013)

Ikhwanul Muslimin is one of the biggest and the most influential Islamic movements that came on power for the first time in a democratic way under the leadership of Mohamed Morsi just after Egyptian people’s 2011uprising. However, it could not remain on power for more than one year. This article tries to address the question: What is the relationship between the ideology of Egypt’s Ikhwanul Muslimin and its political action? The research findings show that having gained power and faced realities and, Ikhwanul Muslimin tried to a large extent to reconsider its ideology, values and norms as well as identity markers in tune with the new conditions so as to maintain and stabilize its power; Consequently, it defined new identity and interests for itself which were in contradiction with the main and fundamental components that formed Ikhwanul Muslimin. Eventually, they accounted for one of the factors for failure of the government of Ikhwanulmuslimin. Of course, it should be noted that the new version of the identity and interests of Ikhwanul Muslimin is times different with the former discursive identity; the political contradiction has finally resulted in loss of political integration; descending legitimacy of Morsi’s government and failure of the government of Ikhwanul Muslimin.