6 Muslim Brotherhood Flashcards
Who was Hassam al-Banna?
A Muslim prayer-leader.
What did he found in 1928?
The Muslim Brotherhood
What was it in the beginning?
a youth group
What did it become?
A promoter of pan-Islamism - one Muslim state.
What later grew out of it?
An armed wing which used violence.
What did it do in 1948?
Participated in the first Arab-Istaeli war.
What was their ideal?
Society should function the way it did when Muhammad was alive.
Did they reject modernity?
No, not if useful.
Who led the way for Hassam al-Banna?
Muhammad Abduh (founder of Islamic modernism)
and
Rashid Rida
What did they say?
The reality of modern likfe must be taken into account.
You must use reason.
What did al-Banna grow up resenting?
British interference in Eqypt, where he was born.
What did Ataturk do in 1924?
He abolished the caliphate in Constantinople. There was no Muslim caliph.
ended 1400 years of religios governance
What was al-Banna’s first job?
He was a teacher along the Suez Canal.
What did he see there?
The influence of the British.
How many members in the brotherhood were there in 10 years in Egypt?
1/2 million.
Egypt’s population was 17 million.
What did they fear that British influence was causing?
secularization
What did the British government offer?
To give the Brotherhood money if it would halt the its anti-British activities during the war. They did..
This did not last long. What did the Brotherhood do?
Assassinated the Egyptian Prime Minister.
What did Britain do in May 1948?
Let go of Palestine.
What had the UN done?
Established Jewish and Arab zones in Palestine.
What did this spark?
A civil war.
Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel?
David Ben-Gurion
What did Egypt do?
Immediately went to war as part of an Arab coalition.
Who won?
Israel, with extra territory originally allocated to the Arabs (Jaffa, Galilee and others)
Egypt took control of the Gaza strip
What did the Palestinian Arabs do?
700,000 left and became refugees.
They were replaced by 700,000 incoming Jews.
Who did Egyptians blame for the loss?
The Egyptian government.
What happened in February 1949?
al-Banna was assassinated by government agents
