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Muslim Brotherhood

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Origins of the Muslim Brotherhood

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Muslim Brotherhood sprouts dissenting parties

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Is the Muslim Brotherhood a Terror Group?

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Jordan election: Muslim Brotherhood gains ground

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Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Ezzat gets life imprisonment - IR Current Affairs for UPSC

The Society of the Muslim Brothers, better known as the Muslim Brotherhood, 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.
  • Beliefs 

  • Strategy and organization 

  • Founding 

  • Post–World War II 

  • Mubarak era 

  • 2011 revolution and after 

  • General leaders 

  • Bahrain 

  • Iran 

  • Turkey 

  • Iraq 

  • Israel 

  • Palestine 

  • Jordan 

  • Qatar 

  • Kuwait 

  • Saudi Arabia 

  • Syria 

  • United Arab Emirates 

  • Yemen 

  • Algeria 

  • Libya 

  • Mauritania 

  • Morocco 

  • Somalia 

  • Sudan 

  • Tunisia 

  • Germany 

  • Russia 

  • United Kingdom 

  • Indonesia 

  • Malaysia 

  • United States 

  • Criticism 

  • Motives 

  • Status of non-Muslims 

  • Response to criticisms 

  • Foreign relations 

  • Outside the Middle East 

  • Relationship to diplomatic crises in Qatar