Birth and first development of the Muslim Brotherhood

Abstract

After making a reflective introduction about the religious-politic movement known as “Muslim Brotherhood”, this article narrates its origins and the factors that shaped it in its foundation by Hassan Al-Banna in 1928. It also describes the development of this organization, the successive aspects, which characterized it through time and the models, and examples that served her in order to build its public and political display. The relation of the Brotherhood, theoretical and practical, with the issue of violence in order to achieve its goals is examined, as this is a matter that has greatly influenced other political organizations that take their inspiration in Salafist and previous Islamic ideals, which the Brotherhood and other latter movements took to radical and extreme consequences. The article ends with what would come to be the hardest encounter between the Brotherhood and a standard State as the Egyptian monarchy. The result was the murder of many ministers and public officials, and of the founder of the Brotherhood. However, this duel would not end with the prevalence of neither of these actors, but with the imposing of a third party, which would be the Egyptian army, after the revolution of 1952.