Source: Wilson Centre
Author(s): Khalil al Anani, Garrett Nada
Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/egypt-the-new-founders
Snapshot:
The single most powerful and prolific Islamist movement was born in Egypt, the intellectual center of the Arab world. Formed in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood was started as a social and religious club by a twenty-two-year-old schoolteacher, who recruited six members of the Suez Canal Company. It has since become the ideological grandfather of more than eighty-five other Islamist groups in dozens of countries well beyond the Arab world. Members or supporters of its many branches now number in the tens of millions….
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