CRIM 101 Lecture 4: terrorism notes April 2013
24 Nov 2017
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In the interwar war era to 1945 britain"s attempts to retain control of egypt and establish a mandate in. The attack on tradition and attempts to modernize was led by primarily educated members of the middle + upper classes who were not representative of the vast majority of egyptians. In the 1920s, disaffected elements of the population began to seek practical solutions to their economic problems + sustenance for their spiritual needs by joining organizations that operated outside the structured party system. This popular reaction against the foreign inspirited parliamentary regime was also a reaction against the secularism that it represented. Many of the voluntary organizations that sprang up in the 1930s were associated with one form or another of islamic activism. Founded in ism"iliyya in 1928 by hasan al-banna, a layman educated at the teacher"s training college. The brotherhood grew dramatically throughout egypt and a membership numbering tens of thousands.
