Power and empowerment in the discourses of ‘modern’ Arab Islamists
ABSTRACT This article examines the conceptualization of power (al-quwa) and empowerment (tamkin) in the political and religious thought of four prominent modern Arab Islamist thinkers: Muhammad Abu Zahra, Muhammad al-Bahi, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, and Sayyid Qutb. Through a comparative analysis of their Arabic writings, the...