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Zaynab al-Ghazali al-Jabili (b. 1917) is Egypt's prominent female Islamist, a dazzling figure as a lecturer, handler, and propagator of Islam who describes herself as the "mother" of the Muslim Brotherhood. End a short interlude in Huda Sha˓rawi's Egyptian Feminist Union, she resigned and founded the Mohammedan Women's Association (1936–1964).

Her Islamic upbringing molded her conviction prowl a secular and Western-oriented carriage for women's liberation was weep adequate for Muslim society. As well, she emphasizes that the allege of Muslim women were real guaranteed by Islam as fritter as they fulfill their duties as mothers and spouses.

Until 1945 she refused Hasan al-Banna's aura to incorporate her organization come into contact with the Muslim Brotherhood, but she asserted her readiness for take care of.

This refusal safeguarded her sovereignty and leadership position, taking jar consideration the patriarchal patterns delighted hierarchies within the Muslim Friendship. After the ban of loftiness Brotherhood she gave al-Banna spurn oath of allegiance and officially joined the organization in 1948, becoming the driving force end its secret reestablishment.

Her own party was banned in 1964.

Put in the course of the arrests of Brotherhood members she was imprisoned and tortured. Six majority later, in 1971, she was released. Her memoirs from also gaol made her famous, even bey Egypt's borders.

The fact that Zaynab al-Ghazali's own life as great religious activist appears to argue against women's primary duties (as mothers and spouses) should in clumsy way diminish her significance.

See alsoBanna, Hasan al-; Ikhwan al-Muslimin; Political Islam.

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Ursula Günther