The Muslim Brotherhood: Between anti-colonialism and imperial...

The Muslim Brotherhood: Between anti-colonialism and imperial...

The Muslim Brotherhood began as a moral movement morphed into a political machine — then, through the writings of Qutb, into an ideological precursor to jihadist extremism. In 1928, in the colonial garrison town of Ismailia, Egypt, a modest schoolteacher named Hassan al-Banna planted the seed of a movement that would shape the future of political Islam across the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood began as a religious and charitable society, pre…