Editing Islamism (section)

====Muslim Brotherhood====
{{main|Muslim Brotherhood}}
[[File:Hassan al-Banna - Al-Alam, V2, P 233.jpg|thumb|[[Hasan al-Banna]]]]
Roughly contemporaneous with Maududi was the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailiyah, Egypt in 1928 by [[Hassan al Banna]]. His was arguably the first, largest and most influential modern Islamic political/religious organization. Under the motto "the Qur'an is our constitution",<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://zulkiflihasan.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/towardsunderstanding.pdf |chapter=The Meaning of Islam |page=7 |title=The Message of the Teachings – Hasan al-Banna |access-date=23 January 2023 |archive-date=23 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123174239/https://zulkiflihasan.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/towardsunderstanding.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
it sought Islamic revival through preaching and also by providing basic community services including schools, mosques, and workshops. Like Maududi, Al Banna believed in the necessity of government rule based on Shariah law implemented gradually and by persuasion, and of eliminating all Western imperialist influence in the Muslim world.<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/rec/MURAGI |access-date=28 June 2019 |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004093428/https://philpapers.org/rec/MURAGI |url-status=live }}</ref>

Some elements of the Brotherhood did engage in violence, assassinating Egypt's premier [[Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha|Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy]] in 1948. MB founder [[Hassan al Banna|Al-Banna]] was assassinated in retaliation three months later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gemsofislamism.tripod.com/timeline_egypt.html|title=Egypt, A Timeline of Recent Events|publisher=Gemsofislamism.tripod.com|access-date=21 April 2012|archive-date=17 December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061217104055/http://gemsofislamism.tripod.com/timeline_egypt.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The Brotherhood has suffered periodic repression in Egypt and has been banned several times, in 1948 and several years later following confrontations with Egyptian president [[Gamal Abdul Nasser]], who jailed thousands of members for several years.

The Brotherhood expanded to many other countries, particularly in the [[Arab world]]. In Egypt, despite periodic repression—for many years it was
described as "semi-legal"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193396891&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull |title=Free Republic. The day before, and after – It's been 25 years since the Islamist genie first went on the rampage |publisher=Fr.jpost.com |access-date=21 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223182128/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193396891&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |archive-date=23 December 2011 }}</ref>—it was the only opposition group in Egypt able to field candidates during elections.<ref name="multiref1">{{cite web|url=http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-924/i.html |title=The Islamism Debate: God's Counterculture |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403133042/http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-924/i.html |archive-date=3 April 2008 |author=Sonja Zekri |work=Süddeutsche Zeitung |date=2008 |translator=Phyllis Anderson}}</ref> In the [[2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election]], the political parties identified as "Islamist" (the Brotherhood's [[Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)|Freedom and Justice Party]], Salafi [[Al-Nour Party]] and liberal Islamist [[Al-Wasat Party]]) won 75% of the total seats.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/world/middleeast/muslim-brotherhood-wins-47-of-egypt-assembly-seats.html |title=Islamists Win 70% of Seats in the Egyptian Parliament |work=The New York Times |date=21 January 2012 |last1=Kirkpatrick |first1=David D. |access-date=27 February 2017 |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004105215/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/world/middleeast/muslim-brotherhood-wins-47-of-egypt-assembly-seats.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Mohamed Morsi]], the candidate of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]]'s party, was the first democratically elected president of Egypt. However, he was deposed during the [[2013 Egyptian coup d'état]], after mass protests against what were perceived as undemocratic moves by him. Today, the Muslim Brotherhood is designated as a [[List of designated terrorist groups|terrorist organization]] by [[Bahrain]], Russia, [[Syria]], [[Egypt]], [[Saudi Arabia]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]].