John L. Esposito
In the aftermath of 9/11, with the need to distinguish mainstream Islam and Islamic movements from terrorist movements in the Muslim world, Carrie Wickham's book takes on even greater significance. An insightful and sophisticated analysis of the roles of cultural identity, political economy, and mobilization in the development of a pioneering and trend-setting Islamic social movement, Mobilizing Islam will be welcomed by experts, policymakers, journalists and students of Muslim politics and comparative politics alike.
Joel S. Migdal
I cannot imagine a more important time for Carrie Wickham's book to appear. It tackles head-on the extraordinary capability of Islamic groups to mobilize a broad public, even in the face of an antagonistic and punitive authoritarian secular government.... The lessons Wickham draws from Egypt are a window into the broader popularity of militant and moderate forms of Islam in authoritarian states in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
John P. Entelis
Never have people more needed a rational, comprehensive, detailed, and empathetic accounting of the Islamist phenomenon as now. Both general readers and area specialists alike, therefore, will be well informed by this brilliant accounting of political Islam's organization, operation, and motivation in modern Egypt as presented by one of America's leading scholars of the subject.
— John P. Entelis, director, Middle East Studies Program, Fordham University
