Hassan al-Banna

Hassan al-Banna was an Egyptian Islamic scholar and political activist who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 and led it until his assassination in 1949.

Muslim Brotherhood: An Islamist movement founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna. Al-Banna created the organization that became the main vehicle for his religious and political program.
Islamism: A political tradition that seeks to shape public life according to Islamic principles. Al-Banna’s program was an influential early model of organized Islamic political activism.
Sayyid Qutb: An Egyptian Islamist writer whose works influenced later Islamist movements. Qutb joined the Brotherhood after al-Banna’s death and became a major ideological figure in it.
Arab Spring: A wave of protests and political upheavals across several Arab countries beginning in 2010. The Brotherhood’s Egyptian successor won elections after the 2011 uprising.
Salafism: A movement that calls for emulating the early generations of Muslims in belief and practice. Al-Banna drew on reformist currents while organizing a broad movement rather than a solely doctrinal school.
Ismailia: An Egyptian city on the Suez Canal, established during construction of the canal. Al-Banna taught there when he founded the Brotherhood in 1928.
Islamic revival: Efforts to renew Islamic belief and practice in response to perceived religious or social decline. Al-Banna framed personal piety and social reform as parts of a broad Islamic renewal.
Abdel Rahman al-Banna: An Egyptian scholar and writer who was Hassan al-Banna’s younger brother. His accounts and writings helped preserve information about Hassan al-Banna’s life and thought.
Mohamed Morsi: An Egyptian politician who served as president from 2012 until his removal in 2013. Morsi became Egypt’s first president from the Brotherhood’s political movement.
Sufism: A range of Islamic traditions emphasizing spiritual discipline and experiential knowledge of God. Al-Banna had ties to Sufi practice, which shaped his religious formation alongside his activist approach.

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