Egyptian Brotherhood
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Society of the Muslim Brothers
جماعة الإخوان المسلمين |
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| Leader | Mohamed Badie |
| Spokesperson | Gehad el-Haddad |
| Founded | 1928 Ismailia, Egypt |
| Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt |
| Ideology | Sunni Islamism |
| Political position | Third Position |
| House of the People (Afghanistan)e |
39 / 249
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| Council of Representatives of Bahrain |
2 / 40
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| People's Representative Council (Indonesia) |
40 / 560
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| Council of Representatives of Iraq |
4 / 325
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| Parliament of Lebanon |
1 / 128
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| National Assembly (Mauritania) |
16 / 146
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| Palestinian Legislative Council |
74 / 132
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| National Assembly of Sudan |
323 / 354
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| Assembly of the Representatives of the People (Tunisia) |
69 / 217
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| House of Representatives (Yemen) |
46 / 301
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| Website | |
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www.ikhwanonline.com (Arabic) www.ikhwanweb.com (English) |
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The Society of the Muslim Brothers (Arabic: جماعة الإخوان المسلمين Jamāʻat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood (الإخوان المسلمون al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn), is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928. The organization gained supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups such as Hamas with its "model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work", and in 2012 sponsored the elected political party in Egypt after the January Revolution in 2011. However, it faced periodic government crackdowns for alleged terrorist activities, and as of 2015 is considered a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain,Egypt, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The Brotherhood's stated goal is to instill the Quran and the Sunnah as the "sole reference point for ... ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community ... and state".
For many years the movement was financed by Saudi Arabia, with which it shared some enemies and some points of doctrine.
As a Pan-Islamic, religious, and social movement, it preached Islam, taught the illiterate, and set up hospitals and business enterprises. The group spread to other Muslim countries but has its largest, or one of its largest, organizations in Egypt despite a succession of government crackdowns in 1948, 1954, 1965, and 2013 after plots, or alleged plots, of assassination and overthrow were uncovered.
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