Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

Biographies: Hassan al-Banna

Biographies: Hassan al-Banna - A great Muslim and teacher of Da’wa ..

Rally held against Mubarak fifth term

About 1000 people have gathered in downtown Cairo to oppose any bid by President Husni Mubarak to run for a fifth term or by his son, Gamal, to become the next leader. ..

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood unshaken by crackdown

A crackdown on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has put the movement center stage as the government yields to demands for reform, but the conflict between the state and the Islamists is unlikely to escalate, analysts say...

M. B. may contest elections using own name

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, officially outlawed but widely tolerated, may have its candidates run under the movement’s own name in November’s parliamentary polls, rather than as independents as they have done in the past. Pan Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat on Thursday quoted sources close to the movement’s leadership as saying that potential candidates had been sent a letter in which they are told to put Muslim Brotherhood next to their names in their applications. The same title is repo..

Akef: Reform in Egypt is inevitable and the eternal rule is unacceptable.

Reform in Egypt is Inevitable and the Eternal Rule is unacceptable. Muhammad Akef, the Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, affirmed that the movement goes on its cooperation with all political and national powers to put an end to all patterns of corruption and deposition along with the consolidation of a comprehensive political and social reform...

Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?

In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some inside the White House have called ..

Louder and louder

The Muslim Brotherhood is gearing up for a greater role on university campuses, reports Mustafa El-Menshawy In 2003, Cairo University students belonging to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group placed a large banner on campus welcoming their fellow students back from summer break. The banner was signed "Islamist students". ..

Poverty is the Main Reason for the Increase of Crime Rate in Egypt

A report: Poverty is the Main Reason for the Increase of Crime Rate in Egypt..

MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO MEDIATE IN ANTI-COPT VIOLENCE

After three people were killed in anti-Christian demonstrations in Alexandria, the influential Muslim Brotherhood is seeking a mediating role in efforts to ease tension between the ......

"Easing into Islamic democracy:

Convinced by their experience in the US, American Muslims are helping form democratic coalitions in the Muslim world and are building their case on Islamic principles." By Jane Lampman The Christian Science Monitor..

The Electoral Programme of the Muslim Brotherhood for Shura Council in 2007

Preface: On the ongoing preparations for the renewal elections for one-half of the Shura (Legislative) council due on June 2007,..

The fruitful tree, the MB call (1)

The Muslim Brotherhood group was founded in March 1928, in al-Esma’elia by a youth teacher and six youth workers and craftsmen. In October 1932, the founder moved to Cairo, and then the MB had fifteen branches in Egypt...

Reading into The Muslim Brotherhood’s Documents

This introduction covers an objective presentation of the content of the documents issued by “the Muslim Brotherhood " last year; these documents include; statements and press releases, and also the weekly messages of the MB chairman; this presentation has been classified according to the following axes ..

Muslim Brotherhood: Structure & Spread

Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is one of the most important Islamic movements in the Arab world and the Muslim world. It represents a broad and distinguished trend within modern Islamic thought. Moreover, the ideological dissertation developed by its intellectuals is taken as a reference authority for most of Islamic movements...

The MB’s attitude towards resistance

Due to the diversity of regimes’ attitudes, Sheikhs’ Fatwas, and people’s opinions that made confusion about resistance, especially in Lebanon, so it is necessary for us to show our attitude in order to settle the issue...

The Principles of The Muslim Brotherhood

In 1996, the Harvard International Review magazine’s editor-in-chief contacted the Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Chairman Mr. Mohammad Ma’mun El-Hudaibi (picture) and hoped that he may contribute through preparing a study on Islam and politics from the Muslim Brotherhood’s point of view.This study, besides others prepared and submitted by other thinkers and politicians on the same topic, were to be published in Spring, 1997...

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Program

The Muslim Brotherhood’s program for the parliamentary elections of 2005 is based on the reference that our method of change stems from. It is the Islamic reference and the democratic mechanisms of the modern civil state...

The Legal Concept of an Islamic State According to The MB

One of the illuminating documents that determines the legal viewpoint on the notion of an Islamically-ruled state is that made by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in the Nasserite period. The Muslim Brotherhood put forward a draft constitution for the leaders of the July Revolution...

Muslim Brotherhood And Democracy in Egypt

The Islamic Trend in Egypt, the Arab community, and the Islamic world as a whole is an expanded one that works on large scales; it is now undoubtedly clear that it has a wide base of supporters...

Towards the Light

In Rajab 1366 (May June 1947), the Imaam Al-Shaheed Hasan Al-Banna, General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, sent this letter to Faruq 1st, King of Egypt and the Sudan, Mustafa Al-Nahaas Pasha, his then Prime Minister, and to the kings, princes, and rulers of the various countries of the Islamic world, as well as to a great number of civic and religious leaders in those countries. Once again we are publishing and distributing it. Many of the view points and directives it contains still..