RT Article
T1 Ḥasan al‐Bannā or the Politicisation of Islam
JF Totalitarian movements and political religions
VO 9
IS 1
SP 21
OP 42
A1 Soage, Ana Belén
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2008
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1838552693
AB The politicisation of Islam can be traced back to the establishment of the Muslim Brothers’ Society in Egypt in the late 1920s. Its founder, Ḥasan al‐Bannā, was greatly influenced by the European political religions that appeared in the first decades of the twentieth century, and there were significant similarities between the Society’s organisation and that of fascist parties. In addition, al‐Bannā embraced totalitarianism and developed the notion of Islam as a ‘comprehensive’ system. Finally, his worldview shows striking parallelisms with that of the totalitarian ideologues, with its depiction of history as a process of decline from a mythical past, and of the Muslim Brothers as the saviours who will lead the nation back to the lost utopia.
DO 10.1080/14690760701856374