Muslim Brotherhood
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The Society of the Muslim Brothers, better known as the Muslim Brotherhood, is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar, imam and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna i
The founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna
A gathering of senior youth scouts (jawala, lit. "travellers") in the 1940s.
Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb, who was executed in 1966
Then-U.S. secretary of state John Kerry meeting with then-Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, May 2013
Sayyid Qutb
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Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Muslim Brotherhood
…his lifetime, including Egyptian prime minister Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha in 1948. In his 1964 book Milestones (معالم في الطريق, Maʿālim fī aṭ-Ṭarīq), Sayyid Qutb, one of the group's most prominent thinkers, promoted takfirism, a doctrine permitting "the stigmatisation of other Muslims as infidel or apostate, and…
Sayyid Qutb during his years of imprisonment
Anwar al-Awlaki
Osama bin Laden, founder and first leader of al-Qaeda