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Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
About Hassan al-Banna
In 1928, a 22-year-old schoolteacher in Ismailia gathered six laborers beneath a sycamore tree and founded a society dedicated not to revolution, but to moral reconstruction, one mosque, one school, one cooperative at a time. That society became the Muslim Brotherhood, shaped less by abstract ideology than by Hassan al-Banna’s insistence on embodied piety: daily prayers timed to factory shifts, Qur’anic literacy campaigns for cotton workers, and medical clinics run by student volunteers in rural Delta villages. He rejected both colonial secularism and quietist traditionalism, insisting Islam was a complete system, yet he wrote fatwas on sewage disposal, drafted constitutions in coffeehouse debates, and insisted Brotherhood members master carpentry and accounting before theology. His voice carried the cadence of Egyptian colloquial Arabic, not classical oration; his letters to members warned against pride in scholarship more often than against Western influence. When he was assassinated in 1949, it was not after a fiery speech, but while crossing Cairo’s Abdel Khaliq Tharwat Street, en route to meet civil servants he hoped to quietly persuade.
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- “How did you adapt Qur’anic teaching for illiterate laborers in 1930s Suez Canal towns?”
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