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The Muslim Brotherhood, also called Muslim Brethren (Arabic: جمعية الأخوان المسلمون jamiat al-Ikhwan al-muslimun, literally Society of Muslim Brothers) is an Islamic

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 organization with a political approach to Islam. It was founded in 1928 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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 by Hassan al Banna Hassan al Banna (October 14 1906 - February 12, 1949) was an Egyptian Islamist best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood.

He was born to a father who was a graduate of the al-Azhar Theological Seminary, a top Muslim seminary.

He was admitted into Cairo University at the age of 16, because of his wealth in islamic knowledge. Banna memorized the entire Qur'an at a young age.

He wrote the book Letter to a Muslim Student describing the fundamentals of the new Muslim Brotherhood, known in Arabic as al-Ikhwan.
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 in Egypt

جمهوريّة مصرالعربيّة
Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah
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Official language Arabic
Capital Cairo
Largest City Cairo
President Hosni Mubarak
Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif
Area
 - Total
 - % water Ranked 29th
1,001,450 km²
0.6%
Population
 - Total (2003)
 - Density Ranked 15th
74,718,797
75/km²
Independence
 - Granted from the UK
February 28, 1922
Currency Egyptian pound (EGP)
Time zone UTC +2 (EET)
National anthem Bilady, Bilady, Bilady
Internet TLD .eg
Calling Code 20
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 after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire Osmanlı İmparatorluğu
Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye

The Ottoman Coat of Arms

Imperial motto: unknown
The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power

Official language Ottoman Turkish
Capital İstanbul (Constantinople)
Sovereigns Sultans of the
Osmanli Dynasty
Population ca 40 million
Establishment 1281
Dissolution October 29 1923
Currency Akçe
The flag of the later Ottoman period
Part of the History of Turkey

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Ideology

The Muslim Brotherhood opposes secular tendencies of Islamic nations and wants return to the precepts of the Qur'an

The Qur'an (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam.

Muslims believe that the Qur'an is the literal word of God and culmination of God's revelation to mankind, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over a period of
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, and rejection of Western influences. They also reject Sufi

Sufism (Arabic تصوف taṣawwuf) is the esoteric aspect of Islam. In modern language it might also be referred to as "Islamic spirituality".

Many Sufi practitioners are organized into a very diverse range of brotherhoods and sisterhoods. Although many orders ("tariqas") can be classified as Shi'a or Sunni or even both, there are a few that are clearly not either Shiah or Sunni and so constitute a separate sphere of Islamic faith.
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 influences. They organize events from prayer meetings to sport clubs for socializing.

The organization's motto is as follows: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope”

An important aspect of the Muslim Brotherhood ideology is the sanctioning of Jihad such as the 2004 fatwa issued by Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi making it a religious obligation of Muslims to abduct and kill USA citizens in Iraq.

Methodology

The Muslim Brotherhood is working to spread its concepts and gain more followers. They work on the levels of school students, university students, inside mosques and at work. The tools they use are cassette tapes, booklets, camps for youth in schools and universities, and recently the Internet.

Structure

The Brotherhood has branches in 70 countries. They claim to have taken part in most pro-Islamic conflicts, from the Arab-Israeli Wars

The Arab-Israeli conflict is a long-running conflict in the Middle East regarding the existence of the State of Israel and its relations with Arab peoples and nations. Some uses of the term Middle East conflict apparently refer to this matter, but the region has been host to other disputes and wars not directly involving Israel (see List of conflicts in the Middle East)

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 and the Algerian War of Independence

The Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) was a period of guerrilla strikes, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians on both sides, and riots between the French army and colonists in Algeria and the FLN ((Front de Libération Nationale) and other pro-independence Algerians. Although the French government of the time considered all Algerian violence, including violence against the French military, to be crimes or terrorism, some French people, such as former anti-Nazi guerrilla and lawyer Jacques Verges have compared French resistance to Nazi German occupation to Algerian resistance to French occupation.
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 to recent conflicts in Afghanistan دولت اسلامی افغانستان
Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan

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National motto: none
Official languages: Pashtu ~30%,
Persian (Dari) ~60%
Capital:
 - Population:
 - Coordinates: Kabul
1,424,400 (1988)
34°30'N, 69°10'E

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 and Kashmir

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The name Kashmir came to be applied to this region as a result of the activities
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. Currently, the Egyptian Brotherhood exists as a militant clandestine group, and has been connected to many underground political operations. In other countries, they have more prominent roles, including parliamentary seats. They have not supported movements like al-Jihad The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), also called the Islamic Jihad and the Jihad Group, is an Egyptian Islamic group active since the late 1970s with origins in the Muslim Brotherhood. It suffered setbacks as a result of numerous arrests of operatives worldwide, most recently in Lebanon and Yemen. The organization's primary goals are to overthrow the Egyptian Government and replace it with an Islamic state and to attack United States and Israeli interests in Egypt and abroad.
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 and al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya

 Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya

Gama'at Islamiya (also Gamaat Islamiya and Jamaat al Islamiya) is a radical Islamist movement in Egypt. Gama'at Islamiya began as an umbrella organization for militant student groups, formed, like the Islamic Jihad, after the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood renounced violence in the 1970s.

The group claims as its spiritual guide the blind cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, who fled Egypt for the United States, and is now serving a life sentence for his role in the first attack on the World Trade Center.
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 in Egypt and mujahedeen Mujahideen (مجاهدين; also transliterated as mujāhidīn, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin, mujaheddin, etc.) is a plural form of mujahid (مجاهد), which literally translates from Arabic as "struggler", someone who engages in jihad, or "struggle", but is often translated as "holy warrior". In the late twentieth century, the term "mujahideen" became popular in the media to describe various armed fighters who subscribe to Islamic ideologies, although there is not always an explicit "holy" or "warrior" meaning within the word.
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 ment of Muslim communities in Europe and the United States

United States of America
(U.S. Flag) (U.S. Great Seal)
National Mottos
(1776 - ): E Pluribus Unum
(Latin: "Out of many, one")
(1956 - ): In God We Trust

Official language None at Federal Level,
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English; de facto, Spanish spoken by growing minority, especially in the West
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History

The Muslim Brotherhood began as a youth organization aimed at moral and social reform in Egypt. They regarded Islam as a way of life. Many Syrian supporters founded their own branches in Syria, one of which was the Aleppo branch, founded in 1935. The Aleppo branch eventually became the Syrian headquarters of the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood expanded its political involvement as the Party of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimoon.

During the 1930s, the Brotherhood became more political in nature and an officially political group in 1939. In 1942, during World War II, Hassan al Banna set up more Brotherhood branches in Transjordan and Palestine. The headquarters of the Syrian branch moved to Damascus in 1944. After World War Two, Egyptian members took violent action against King Farouk

King Farouk of Egypt (February 11, 1920 - March 18, 1965) was the penultimate King of Egypt, succeeding his father Fuad I in 1936. His sister, Fawzia of Egypt was Empress of Iran for a brief period.

Reign

Upon his coronation, the 16 year-old king made a public radio address to the nation, the first time a King of Egypt had ever spoken directly to his people. His father Fuad I did not speak any Arabic, and therefore did not communicate to the Egyptian people.
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’s government. When the organization was banned in Egypt, hundreds moved to Transjordan. Many also participated in the Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, called the War of Independence by Israelis and al Nakba "the catastrophe" by Arabs, was the first in a series of wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict. It established the state of Israel as an independent state, with the rest of the British Mandate of Palestine split into areas controlled by Egypt and Transjordan.

Background

Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the League of Nations granted the British and the French "mandates" or temporary colonial administration, over former Ottoman "Vilayets" or provinces south of present day Turkey. The two powers drew arbitrary borders and created three Arab countries -- Iraq, Syria, Lebanon -- that exist to this day.
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 of 1948 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).

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-1949 1949 is the common year starting on Saturday. (see link for calendar)

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, fighting against the Jewish occupiers.

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood initially supported Gamal Abd an-Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر, January 15, 1918 - September 28, 1970) was the second President of Egypt after Muhammad Naguib and can be considered one of the most important Arab leaders in history.

Nasser was born in Alexandria, the son of a postal official. He spent part of his childhood living
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's secular government and cooperated with it, but resisted left-wing influences. A Muslim Brother assassinated Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi on December 28 December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining.

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. The Brotherhood was banned, and Al Banna himself was killed by government agents in Cairo

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While al-Qāhirah is the official name of the city, in local speech it is typically called simply by the name of the country, Mişr (Arabic, مصر) pronounced Maşr in the local dialect.
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 in February 1949 1949 is the common year starting on Saturday. (see link for calendar)

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Muslim Brother Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf allegedly tried to kill Nasser on October 26 October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining.

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. The Brotherhood was outlawed again and over 4000 of its members were imprisoned, including Sayed Qutb

Sayyid Qutb (9 October 1906 in Musha – executed on 29 August 1966) was an important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

He first received a religious and then a modernist education before starting his career in the Ministry of Public Instruction. He spent from 1948 to 1951 in United States on a scholarship to study the educational system, receiving a master's degree from the Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado).
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, who later became the most influential intellectual of the group. He wrote influential books while in prison. More members moved to Jordan

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is a country in the Middle East. It is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the north-east, Saudi Arabia to the east and south, and Israel and West Bank to the west. It shares the coastlines of the Gulf of Aqaba and the Dead Sea.

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, Lebanon
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République libanaise
الجمهوريّة البنانيّة

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, Saudi Arabia The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, with the Persian Gulf to its north-east and the Red Sea to its west.

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, and Syria.

The organization opposed the alliance Egypt had with the USSR at the time, and opposed the communist influence in Egypt, to the extent that it was reportedly supported by the CIA during the 1960s.

Nasser legalized the Brotherhood again in 1964, and released all prisoners. After claiming more assassination attempts against him, he had leaders executed in 1966 and imprisoned most others again.

Nasser's successor in Egypt, Anwar Sadat, promised reforms, and that he would implement Sharia. However, Sadat's peace treaty with Israel in 1979 angered the Brotherhood again and most of the Egyptian people, which led to his assassination in 1981.

In the 1950s, Jordanian members supported King Hussein of Jordan against political opposition and against Nasser's attempts to overthrow him. When the King banned political parties in Jordan in 1957, the Brotherhood was exempted.

The Syrian branch was the next to be banned when Syria joined Egypt in the United Arab Republic (UAR) in 1958. The Brotherhood went underground. When Syria left the UAR 1961, the Brotherhood won 10 seats in the next elections. However, the Ba’th coup in 1963 forced them underground once more, alongside all the other political groups.

The appointment of Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite Muslim, as the Syrian president in 1971 angered the Brotherhood even more because the majority of Muslims do not consider Alawites true Muslims at all. Assad initially tried to placate them, but made very little progress. Assad’s support of Maronites in the Lebanese Civil War made the Brotherhood re-declare its jihad. They began a campaign of strikes and terrorist actions. In 1979, they killed 83 Alawite cadets in the Aleppo artillery school. Assad’s attempts to calm them by changing officials and releasing political prisoners did not help. Eventually the army was used to restore order by force.

An assassination attempt against Assad on June 25, 1980 was the last straw. Assad made the Syrian parliament declare Brotherhood membership a capital offense and sent the army against them. In the operation, which lasted until February of 1982, the Syrian army practically wiped out the Brotherhood, killing an unknown but large number of people in the Hama Massacre. The Syrian branch disappeared, and the survivors fled to join Islamic organizations in other countries.

The Saudi Arabian branch convinced king Ibn Saud to let them start the Islamic University in Medina in 1961. After the Six-Day War in 1967, the movement as a whole split into moderates and radicals. The latter faction in Syria declared jihad against the Ba'th party leaders. King Hussein allowed the Jordanian branch to give military training to Brotherhood rebels in Jordan.

In 1973, the Israeli government allowed local leader Ahmad Yassin to run social, religious and welfare institutions among Palestinian Muslims. In 1983, he was arrested for illegal possession of firearms and sentenced to prison. When he was released 1985, he became more popular then ever. When the first Intifada begun in 1987, he became one of the founders of Hamas.

In 1984, the Muslim Brotherhood was partially reaccepted in Egypt as a religious organization, but was placed under heavy scrutiny by security forces. It remains a source of friction.

In 1989, the Jordanian Brotherhood's political wing, the Islamic Action Front, won 23 out of 80 seats in Jordan's parliament. King Hussein tried to limit their influence by changing the election laws, but in the 1993 elections, they became the largest group in the parliament. They strongly opposed the Jordanian-Israeli Peace Treaty in 1994.

In the early days of the Soviet-Afghan war, the Muslim Brotherhood was seen as a constituent part of the Afghan anti-communist opposition.

The resistance movement in Afghanistan formed in opposition to the leftist policies of King Zahir Shah. The movement had connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Russian government alleges that the Muslim Brotherhood is a key force in the ongoing Chechen revolt. Russian officials accused the Muslim Brotherhood of planning the December 27, 2002 suicide car bombing of the headquarters of the Russian-backed government in Grozny, Chechnya.

Today, however, the Muslim Brotherhood is viewed as a far more moderate group than other Islamist organizations operation in the Middle East, such as al-Qaida. In countries where they are permited to, the Brotherhood has competed in and supported free elections.

Prominient Muslim Brothers

Prominent Muslim Brothers include the late Sayyed Qutb, the late Hasan al-Banna, and Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

References

  • Bradsher, Afghanistan page 91,218.
  • Gilles Keppel: Jihad. Paris 2000

See also

External Links

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