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Those who have doubts about how committed Islamic movements are to the principle of democracy have every reason to doubt. Every single group of these Islamists has practiced bloody violence. These movements have shifted their programs after September 11. Previously, they considered, democracy,...
During a televised interviews aired by Al-Jazeera satellite channel, Abdel-Khaleq, the former member of the formation committee and the guidance office of the Brotherhood discussed the stand of Al-Hudaiby toward “Ma’alem Fel-Tareeq” [Milestones], written by Sayyed Qutb and also Al-Hudaiby’s stand...
Between 1957 and 1962, the Muslim Brotherhood members started debating the question of whether Gamal Abdel Nasser is considered a Muslim or not. Some members of the group who have escaped the arrest campaigns by Nasser in 1954, were plotting to take revenge from the blow that was dealt to them by...
In 1963, Sayyed Qutb appeared in close relationship with the organization that later was associated with his name. At the same time, the field leaders of the organization were looking for a new Islamic face to take the position of their leader.
[This article was previously translated last week from Al-Hayat newspaper issue of May 26 under the title “The [Muslim] Brotherhood members were divided about the ideas of [Sayyed] Qutb that was based on the takfir-based ideology [accusing a person or the society as a whole of unbelief].The supreme...
The articles about the hijab and the niqab affair written by the intellectual Hussein Ahmad Amin, which were published in issues 214 and 215, elicited controversial reactions. The debate around the veil, as presented by Amin, is a scientific dialogue and should not be related to his personal views...
This study aims at examining the historical events that marked the relationship of Hassan Al-Hudaiby, the second supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the “Tanzim Al-Ekhwan” [the organization of the Brothers] that was led by the late Sayyed Qutb. The organization was uncovered in 1965. One...
The ideas of Sayyed Qutb were transmitted to the Muslim Brotherhood through the then-supreme guide Hassan Al-Hudaiby. Al-Hudaiby did not know that there were 300 young men studying Qutb’s ideas.
Saudi intellectuals preceded their Arab counterparts in submitting a number of collective demands to their government to effect political reform. The Saudi culture faces two main streams of thought: the reformist stream and the conservative stream, both cutting across the intellectuals and the...
Before the opening of the Forth General Conference of Journalists in 2004, President Husnī Mubārak had declared his historical initiative of canceling imprisonment for publishing [or journalism] related crimes. Journalists are extremely worried because the status quo remains even after a year...

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