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47 J. Church & St. 109 (2005)
The State and the Islamic Movement in Jordan

handle is hein.journals/jchs47 and id is 111 raw text is: The State and the Islamic Movement in Jordan EMILE F. SAHLIYEH INTRODUCTION This study explores the conditions necessary for the political gains and losses of Jordan's Islamic movement. The Islamic movement's participation in Jordan's political life and the close ties it kept with the Hashemite royal family for more than half a century contrasts sharply with the political exclusion and even the suppression of the Islamic groups in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Algeria, and Iraq. These countries used non-peaceful and frequently violent mechanisms to manage the relationship with the Islamic opposition groups. The Jordanian experience indicates that the Islamic movement, including the Muslim Brotherhood and its political organ, the Islamic Action Front, has used non- violent means to express their opposition to the government's foreign and economic policies. A number of prominent scholars of Jordanian politics have investigated the history of the relationship between the state in Jordan and the Islamic movement. Writers such as Quintan Wiktorowicz, Marion Boulby, Sabah el- Said, and Glenn Robinson maintain that the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan offers an example for the compatibility of Islam with the principles of democracy and political stability.1 According to those writers, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood is essentially pragmatic, respects the rule of law and the prevailing democratic principles, and supports the *EMILE F. SAHLIYEH (B.A., M.A., American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Ph.D., Georgetown University) is Director, International Studies, and Associate Professor, International Relations and Middle East Politics, Department of Political Science, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. His articles have appeared in Arab Studies Quarterly, Ethnic Conflict Digest, African and Asian Studies, Electoral Studies, and International Studies Quarterly. Special interests include religion and politics, human rights, and government and politics in the Middle East. 1. Marion Boulby, The Muslim Brotherhood and the Kings of Jordan 1945-1993 (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999); Quintan Wiktorowicz, Islamists, the State, and Cooperation in Jordan, Arab Studies Quarterly 21 (Fall 1999): 1-17; Glenn E. Robinson, Can Islamists Be Democrats? The Case of Jordan, Middle East Journal 51 (Summer 1997): 373-88; and Sabah el-Said, Between Pragmatism and Ideology (The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan), Policy Paper Number 39 (Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1995).

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