The Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood was a large Islamic party. It founded by Hasan al-Banna in Egypt in 1928. Their goal was to create an Islamic nation, and they used shari’ah law. The ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood spread throughout the Arab World, and they had many branches in many Arab countries. Hasan al-Banna and his followers worked against the foreign companies “British imperial rule” in their country. What they had done were including charitable contributions and focusing on politics, economics, and societies problems, and they worked to find solutions for making all these things better. The Muslim Brotherhood had many activities, but the social benefits for Egyptian people are the most important activity that they have done.
One of the most crucial benefits that the society gained from the Muslim Brotherhood working was providing social security, and they wished to make some changes in order to remedy the problems such as injustices among the Egyptian people. The Muslim brotherhood demanded that the upper class would not play with the lower class and use them as they want. According to Abed-Kotob, “They ideally would led to the creation of a harmonious Islamic society in which the upper class would not exploit the poor, the manager would not oppress the workers, and the profit would be tempered by piety and good works” (327). This is such a great work that benefited society, and poor people have a chance to live as human beings. The poor people would have optimistic views for their future. What the Muslim Brotherhood did was a subject to increasing social justice in Egyptian society. Another important point is that the Muslim Brotherhood also started to organize the collecting of Zakat, which is the Islam...
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...f poor people to be better. Beside of these, the Muslim Brotherhood wanted to reform their country, and they wanted to reform each individual’s heart in order to think in a right way. They asked for democracy with Islamic concepts.
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...I had misunderstood, or rather ignored, the Muslim Brotherhood as it materialized in Egypt and later took root and inspired others elsewhere. If Wright analysis is correct, and I suspect he is in this abundantly researched and well-written book, it was born as an opposition to colonialism and its nationalist / socialist / modernist / capitalist alternatives. It appeared that to Sayyid Qutb and other shaping figures in the Brotherhood, Islam was an all-encompassing system to remake the post-colonial world. Qutb, who actually spent time in the United States studying, returned in the late 40’s outraged and radicalized. Qutb soaked up our supposed corruption and regarded the U.S. as propping up regimes that the majority in the Middle East didn’t like, as well as being a good friend of Israel and opposed to Islam, issues that still are a common complaint heard today.
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