Transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna. Combines political activism with Islamic charity work, aiming to establish a state ruled by Sharia under a caliphate. It gained political power after the Arab Spring but was overthrown in 2013 and subsequently banned and designated a terrorist group in Egypt and several other countries.
CRIMENET has extracted 65 linkages for this organization, including 14 cooperative ties across 11 organizations, 8 conflicts across 6 organizations, 43 other connections and footprints in 19 countries.
The Muslim Brotherhood reached Algeria during the later years of the French colonial presence in the country (1830–1962).
the Muslim Brotherhood had opened an office in Western Sydney
Following parliamentary elections in 2002, Al Menbar became the largest joint party with eight seats in the forty-seat Chamber of Deputies.
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Ramadan built a major center for the Brotherhood centered on a mosque in Munich, which became 'a refuge for the beleaguered group during its decades in the wilderness'.
The Iraqi Islamic Party was formed in 1960 as the Iraqi branch of the Brotherhood
Another small branch was founded in Jordan at the turn of 1946.
Egyptian Brethren came to Kuwait in the 1950s as refugees from Arab nationalism and integrated into the education ministry and other parts of the state.
Groups were founded in Lebanon (1936), in Syria (1937), and Transjordan (1946).
A group of the Muslim Brotherhood came to the Libyan kingdom in the 1950s as refugees escaping crackdown by the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser
al-Banna designated al-Husseini a local Brotherhood leader to spread the influence of the new Palestinian branch established in October 1945.
In the 1950s and 1960s many Brotherhood members sought sanctuary in Saudi Arabia.
An offshoot of the Sudanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Charter Front grew during the 1960
It was written on 1 December 1982, by Yusuf al-Qaradawi at the culmination of a series of two meetings held in 1977 and 1982 in Lugano , Switzerland.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria was founded in the 1930s (according to lexicorient.com) or in 1945, a year before independence from France, (according to journalist Robin Wright).
Muslim Brotherhood presence in the United Arab Emirates began with the formation of the Al Islah group in the United Arab Emirates in 1974 with the approval of Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum.
The Muslim Brotherhood uses London as an administration base.
U.S. Muslim Brotherhood supporters 'make up the U.S. Islamic community's most organized force' by running hundreds of mosques and business ventures... In 1963, the U.S. chapter of Muslim Brotherhood was started by activists involved with the Muslim Students Association (MSA).
The Muslim Brotherhood is the political arm of the Yemeni Congregation for Reform , commonly known as Al-Islah .