21 hours ago by ikhwanscope

Founded in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has never experienced a leadership crisis as serious as that which erupted two weeks ago. As is now well-known, the problem originated with the refusal on the part of the MB’s Guidance Bureau (the organisation’s highest executive body) to accept Essam El- ...

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22 hours ago by ikhwanscope

Dr. Yvette Talhamy The ‘Alawis of Syria are part of the Shi’a stream; this has led to an alliance with Iran, the center of Shi’ite Islam. This alliance aggravated the oppositionist Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (MB), whose members have been in exile since 1982. According to them, the alliance is a stage ...

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22 hours ago by ikhwanscope

Marc Lynch Moderate Islamist movements across the Arab world have made a decisive turn towards participation in democratic politics over the last 20 years. They have developed an elaborate ideological justification for contesting elections, which they have defended against intense criticism from mor ...

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23 hours ago by ikhwanscope

The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first saw a dissemination of the Internet as a center of communication, information, entertainment and commerce. The spread of the Internet reached all four corners of the globe, connecting the researcher in Antarctica with the farmer ...

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23 hours ago by ikhwanscope

ÖZLEM TÜR KAVLİ The Islamic challenge remains a central issue within the ongoing debate on the nature of Middle East politics. As the main opposition to government policies, the Islamic movements enjoy widespread popularity, especially among the lower echelons of those populations —people who are ec ...

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1 day ago by ikhwanscope

The leadership of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood (MB, or Ikhwan) has said that its goal was and is jihad aimed at destroying the U.S. from within. The Brotherhood leadership has also said that the means of achieving this goal is to establish Islamic organizations in the U.S. under the control of the Mu ...

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1 day ago by ikhwanscope

Hasan Isma>il al-Hudaybi led the Society of the Muslim Brotherhood during a time of crisis and dissolution. Succeeding Hasan al-Banna’, who was the founder and fi rst leader of the organisation, al-Hudaybi was to be its head for more than twenty years. During his leadership he faced severe criticism ...

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2 days ago by Toni

An arm of the Muslim Brotherhood (Islamic Circle of North America) now has billboards in Minneapolis this week. From Jihad Watch: They say they want to encourage dialogue via these billboards. Great. I’ll start. The billboard says that Islam is “the way of life of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus & ...

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2 days ago by Abdelrahman Ayyash

According to his page on Facebook, this November 14, is the third anniversary for Khairat Alshater’s detention. Khairat Alshater’s is the second deputy chairman for Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Alshater is one of the most [...]

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3 days ago by ikhwanscope

introduction The publication you have in your hands is the first of what we hope will be an annual series that provides a window into the movers and shakers of the Muslim world. We have strived to highlight people who are influential as Muslims, that is, people whose influence is derived from their ...

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