Hassan al-Banna is remembered in public life for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Hassan al-Banna as Egyptian Islamist leader and politician (1906—1949).
Hassan al-Banna was born at Mahmoudiyah in 1906. His recorded nationality is the Ottoman Empire. He was educated at Faculty of Dar Al-Uloom, Cairo University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Hassan al-Banna is described as preacher, writer and teacher.
Hassan al-Banna is associated first and foremost with founding the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest and most influential global Islamist movements. What survives of a political career is usually not the speeches but the institutions left behind.
The surviving body of work includes The Message of Teachings and Twenty principles.
Working from the Ottoman Empire shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1949, at 43. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Message of Teachings
- Notable work: Twenty principles
- Educated at Faculty of Dar Al-Uloom, Cairo University
- Worked as preacher, writer and teacher
