Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 117 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5092-8008-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Muslim Brotherhood (Arabic: ????? ??????? ????????? gamma?at al-?i?wan/al-ikhwan/el-ekhwan al-muslimun, IPA: ) in Egypt is an Islamist religious, political, and social movement. Following the 2011 Revolution the group was legalized, and with an estimated 600,000 members or supporters it's considered the largest, best-organized political force in Egypt. Its credo is, "God is our objective; the Quran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations." Founded in Egypt by Hassan al-Banna in March 1928, the group spread to other Muslim countries but has its largest, or one of its largest, organizations in Egypt despite a succession of government crackdowns in 1948, 1954, 1965 after plots, or alleged plots, of assassination and overthrow were uncovered. In April 2011 it launched a civic political party called the Freedom and Justice Party to contest elections,...