How was the Muslim Brotherhood founded in Egypt?

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The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in March 1928 in Ismailia, Egypt, by Hassan al-Banna.123

Al-Banna, a teacher who had been assigned to the city near the Suez Canal, was deeply distressed by the foreign economic and military occupation of Egypt and the perceived decay of society. He established the organization alongside six workers from a British camp labor force with the goal of rejuvenating Islam.2

Initially, the movement was apolitical and focused on religious and educational programs, providing social services to populations that the Egyptian government had failed to reach. However, by the 1930s, the group began to politicize its outlook, eventually becoming a powerful force for popular mobilization against British influence and the ruling Wafd party.45