Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen : The Muslim Brotherhood

By Hassan-Al-Banna

Book Id: WPLBN0000706823
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen : The Muslim Brotherhood
Author:	Hassan-Al-Banna
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Asian literature, Writing.
Collections:	Asian Literature Collection, e-Asia Digital Library Collection
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Publisher:	University of Oregon Libraries; E-Asia Digital Library


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Excerpt
Excerpt: WITHOUT CLOSELY examining Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen (the Muslim Brotherhood) founded in Egypt in 1928, it is impossible to try to understand modern Islamic radicalism. Al-Ikhwan was the first of its kind to politicize Islam within the context of the colonial age and the first to put into practice the theories of Salafist thinkers such as Jamal-al-Din Al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh. These two Muslim revivalists, who wrote and preached during the beginning of the 20th-century, espoused that Islam and modernity are compatible and that Muslims lack control over their destinies because they have fallen into fatalism, abandoning the quest for understanding. According to Al-Afghani and Abduh, falling away from their true faith has made Muslim lands vulnerable to Western colonialism.