She and a few others then created a plan to educate the youth in the matters of Islam in order to endorse a practising society and eventually establish an Islamic state.

which seems to be the trend among Egyptian presidents.Īl-Ghazali describes in her book, her distaste of the Egyptian society's lacking moral conduct (having been influenced by the British) and it's rulers who seemed content at it's lack of Islamic practise. I doubt he started off bad, but he probably ended up evil. Ironically, nasir was one a member of the brotherhood too. Under Nasir's rule the brotherhood was supposedly disbanded but Al-Ghazali and two other men helped in restoring it. She swore allegiance to the founder and leader of the Muslim Brother hood, Hassan Al-Banna, only shortly before he was assassinated by Nasir's secret police. And had given her life to the cause of Islam at the tender age of 18. I had not been aware of how grievous these mistakes were until I read Zainab Al-Ghazali Al-Jubaili's memoir of her time in Prison under Nasir's reign.Īl-Ghazali was an active president of the Muslim Ladies' Group in the early sixties. and I learnt he had imprisoned quite a considerable number of Ikhwan Al-Muslimun (Muslim Brotherhood) members. The office of 'successor' to the prophet Muḥammad as the leader of the Muslim community is a uniquely Islamic institution.When I attended a talk by Wael Ghoneim at the London School of Economics in January I was quite surprised when he briefly referred himself to the crowd as not a fan of the late President Jamal Abd al-Nasir. Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966), among the most influential Islamist thinkers of the twentieth century, was born on… Al-qaeda, Al-Qaeda (pronounced al KYE-dah Arabic for “the base”) is a worldwide terrorist network of organizations and individuals dedicated to jihad (“strugg… Caliphate, CALIPHATE. Pan-Islam is the ideology that calls for the unity and cooperation of Muslims worldwide on the basis of their shared Islamic identity. These two movem… Pan-islamism, Pan-Islam

A Muslim modernist and reformer, and strong anti-… Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Two groups have the name Islamic Jihad (sometimes called the Organization of the Islamic Jihad), one Egyptian, the other Palestinian. Hoffman, Valerie J.'An Islamist Activist: Zaynab al-Ghazali.' In Women and the Family in the Middle East. Broushton Gifford, Wiltshire, U.K.: Cromwell Press, 1994. 'Zaynab al-Ghazali: Saint or Subversive?' Die Welt des Islams 34, no. See also Banna, Hasan al- Ikhwan al-Muslimin Political Islam. The fact that Zaynab al-Ghazali's own life as a religious activist appears to contradict women's primary duties (as mothers and spouses) should in no way diminish her significance. Her memoirs from prison made her famous, even beyond Egypt's borders. Six years later, in 1971, she was released. In the course of the arrests of Brotherhood members she was imprisoned and tortured. After the ban of the Brotherhood she gave al-Banna her oath of allegiance and formally joined the organization in 1948, becoming the driving force behind its secret reestablishment. This refusal safeguarded her independence and leadership position, taking into consideration the patriarchal patterns and hierarchies within the Muslim Brotherhood. Until 1945 she refused Hasan al-Banna's offer to incorporate her organization into the Muslim Brotherhood, but she asserted her readiness for cooperation. Moreover, she emphasizes that the rights of Muslim women were entirely guaranteed by Islam as long as they fulfill their duties as mothers and spouses. Her Islamic upbringing molded her conviction that a secular and Western-oriented movement for women's liberation was not adequate for Muslim society.

After a short interlude in Huda Sha˓rawi's Egyptian Feminist Union, she resigned and founded the Muslim Women's Association (1936–1964). 1917) is Egypt's prominent female Islamist, a leading figure as a lecturer, teacher, and propagator of Islam who describes herself as the 'mother' of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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