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READER ADS: Tourist guide requires work | PUT YOUR AD HERE - FREE Click to open Encyclopaedia of the Orient on its front page Muslim Brotherhood - Egypt Arabic: i kh wanu l-muslim n Islamist organization started by Hassan al-Banna in 1928, and turned into a political group from 1939. The Brotherhood aimed principally on social and moral reform based upon Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood has both ...

Remembering Sayyid Qutb, an Islamic intellectual and leader of rare insight and integrity By Zafar Bangash It is perhaps indicative of the present state of the Ummah that, outside his native Egypt and a small circle of Islamic activists, few Muslims are aware that August 29 marked the thirty-third anniversary of the martyrdom of Sayyid Qutb. He was no ordinary Muslim. A man of impeccable Islamic ...

From: Khalil, Yasser KhalilY@mail.dnb.com Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahu wa Barakatu, Biographies: Hassan al-Banna (Allah Arhamu) - A great Muslim and teacher of Da'wa Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Banna, the father of al-Shahid Hassan al-Banna, worked as a watch-repairer in the southern Egyptian town of al-Mahmudiyya. he was also an Islamic scholar that had graduated from al-Azhar University.