The Islamist Movement

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This paper provides a brief insight into the Islamist movement. It discusses how the Islamic movement in the Muslim world is today, as it has been for many centuries, a multifaceted transnational movement that is perpetually influenced and motivated by global issues, regional developments and individual Islamic intellectuals. It analyzes the influences on the Islamist movement over the years such as that of the Muslim Brotherhood(Al-Ikhwan Moslimoon) which was formed in Egypt in 1928 and the writer and leader Sayyid Qutb who provided a guideline for Muslim activists.

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"Indeed, Sayyid Qutb remains a cherished figure in Islamic thought; however, the Muslim Brotherhood has been criticized in recent times as being "no longer the movement that Sayyid Qutb had joined when he returned from the US" and that it has become "little more than a political party with an Islamic flag"(Islamic Gateway, 1999). The Brotherhood has, however, responded to political strife and the oppression of Muslims throughout the world(MBMH, 2000). An Egyptian phenomenon, the Ikhwan has volunteered members to the 1948 Palestine War and has more recently been involved in the liberation of Muslim lands from colonial powers in Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Kashmir(MBMH, 2000). "

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