The International Muslim Brotherhood Organization Has Undergone Several Changes Before Reaching Its Current Form: Learn About Them
Mustafa Kamal, a researcher in regional security affairs, revealed that the beginning of the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood was officially announced on June 29, 1982, with the appearance of its internal regulation called the “Special System of the Muslim Brotherhood.” He explained that the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood has gone through several changes before reaching its current form, taking three different organizational shapes over various periods.
Kamal, during his participation in the program “The Other Face” presented by journalist Dalia Abdelrahim on the “Cairo News” channel, added that in the 1930s, the organization took its first form as a section for political communication with the Islamic world. Its goal was to create branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Islamic world and attract Islamic leaders present in Arab countries.
He continued, saying that in the 1940s, the organization took a larger organizational form, after the main branches in the Islamic world started to operate, whether in Indonesia, Djibouti, Morocco, Sudan, or Jordan. It took a new form under the name of the executive office, which acted as an intermediary between the organization in Cairo and the main branches.
For her part, journalist Dalia Abdel Rahim, editor-in-chief of Al-Bawaba newspaper and assistant head of the news channels sector at the United Media Services Company for the political Islam file, said that from the second half of the 1940s, the Muslim Brotherhood expanded in creating branches. The Syrian branch was established in 1945, followed by the Jerusalem branch and the Sudanese branch in 1946, the branch in East Africa in Eritrea, and the Moroccan branch in Tetouan, marking the first branch in the Arabian Gulf region.
She noted that the Kuwaiti branch was established in 1947 and the Baghdad branch in Iraq in the same year, and the Lebanese branch in 1949. This period witnessed the establishment of Brotherhood sections in Indonesia, Ceylon, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Turkey.
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She pointed out that according to Brotherhood documents, these branches operated under the name “External Communication Section.” After the clash with the regime in Egypt in 1954 following the assassination attempt on Nasser known as the Manshiya incident, which resulted in crackdowns, imprisonments, and the escape of the remaining Brotherhood leaders, and with the absence of the central administration of the organization “Guidance Office,” the management of the organization was entrusted to the “executive office of the Brotherhood in Arab countries,” a situation that continued until the mid-1970s.
