Editing Muslim Brotherhood (section)

====Formative period (1928–1936)====
[[File:Hassan al-Banna.jpg|thumb|upright=1|The founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, [[Hassan al-Banna]]]]

[[Hassan al-Banna]] founded the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of [[Ismailia]] in March 1928 along with six workers of the [[Suez Canal]] Company, as a [[Pan-Islamic]], religious, political, and [[social movement]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mura|first=Andrea|year=2012|title=A genealogical inquiry into early Islamism: the discourse of Hasan al-Banna|journal=[[Journal of Political Ideologies]]|volume=17|issue=1|pages=61–85|doi=10.1080/13569317.2012.644986|s2cid=144873457|url=https://philpapers.org/archive/MURAGI.pdf|access-date=28 December 2023|archive-date=15 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215005119/https://philpapers.org/archive/MURAGI.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> They appointed Al-Banna as their leader and vowed to work for [[Islam]] through ''[[Jihad]]'' and revive Islamic Brotherhood. Thus, the Muslim Brothers were born; under the pledge that its members would
<blockquote>be soldiers in the call to Islam, and in that is the life for the country and the honour for the ''[[Ummah|Umma]]''... We are brothers in the service of Islam.. Hence we are the "Muslim Brothers".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pankhurst|first=Reza|title=The Inevitable Caliphate? – A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0-19-932799-7|location=New York|pages=68–69}}</ref><ref name="Bellaigue" /></blockquote>

The Suez Canal Company helped Banna build the mosque in Ismailia that would serve as the Brotherhood's headquarters, according to [[Richard P. Mitchell]]'s ''The Society of Muslim Brothers''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mitchell|first=Richard Paul|author-link=Richard P. Mitchell|title=The Society of the Muslim Brothers|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1993|isbn=9780195084375|pages=68–69}}</ref> According to al-Banna, contemporary Islam had lost its social dominance, because most Muslims had been corrupted by Western influences. Sharia law based on the [[Qur'an]] and the [[Sunnah]] were seen as laws passed down by God that should be applied to all parts of life, including the organization of the government and the handling of everyday problems.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Moslem Brethren|last1=Husaini|first1=Ishak Musa|publisher=Khayat's College Book Cooperative|location=Beirut|year=1956|pages=62–63|quote=[speech by l-Banna] The Brethren understand Islam in its fullest and most comprehensive implications, that it must have supervision over ''all'' affairs of individual and collective life and that ''everything'' must come under its rule and conform to its teachings. Whoever is a Muslim merely in his worship but imitates the non-believer in all other things is no better than an infidel.}}</ref>

Al-Banna was populist in his message of protecting workers against the tyranny of foreign and monopolist companies. It founded social institutions such as hospitals, pharmacies, schools, etc. Al-Banna held highly conservative views on issues such as women's rights, opposing equal rights for women, but supporting the establishment of justice towards women.<ref name="Women" /> The Brotherhood grew rapidly going from 800 members in 1936, to 200,000 by 1938 and over 2 million by 1948.<ref name=FFPIW-60>{{cite book|last1=Husain|first1=Irfan|last2=Cohen|first2=Stephen P.|title=Fatal Faultlines: Pakistan, Islam and the West|date=2012|publisher=Arc Manor LLC|page=60|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNwzeQAHVJwC&q=800+members+in+1936+brotherhood&pg=PA60|access-date=20 April 2015|isbn=9781604504781}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>