Sheikh Youssef al Qaradawi was one of the foremost thinkers of the “Muslim Brotherhood.”
The Qatari preacher of Egyptian origin died Monday, September 26, at the age of 96, following an illness, said the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) of which he was president.
Born in Egypt in 1926, Youssef Al-Qaradawi became known early on for his political activism against the British occupation.
In the 1950s, he was arrested by the nationalist regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser over links with the Muslim Brotherhood.
He became the ideologue of this Sunni Islamic organization created by Hassan al Banna in 1928.
In 1977, he founded the University of Islamic Sciences in Qatar.
At the onset of the “Arab Spring,” he supported the popular revolt which forced Hosni Mubarak from power, after 30 years as president of Egypt (1981 -2011).
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