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Muslim Brotherhood
Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, Egypt, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 as an attempt to modernize Islamic society.
The Muslim Brotherhood promotes the Qur'an and the Hadith as the foundational guides for creating a healthy and thriving Islamic society.12
Founded by Hassan al-Banna in 1928, the organization emerged as an Islamist movement aimed at rejuvenating the Islamic world by applying these core religious precepts to address the challenges of modernity and the historical decline of Muslim societies in the face of Western colonialism.132