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Hassan al-Banna — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1906–1949 · Egypt · Founder & organiser

Hassan al-Banna

Islam is the solution

A mass movement for religious order.

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Economic−6
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Governance+90
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Social−80
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The schoolteacher who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, pioneering the mass-movement model for establishing a religiously ordered state and society.

social

Comprehensive religious-traditional revival.

economic

Charity, welfare and an economy bounded by religious law.

governance

Built a mass organisation aiming at a religiously-governed state.

Notable for
  • Founded the Muslim Brotherhood
  • Mass religious-political organising
  • Shaped 20th-c Islamism
muslim-brotherhoodrevivalismmass-movement
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