Umar al-Tilmisani

Umar at- Talmasani (* November 4, 1904 in Cairo, † 22 May 1986, Arabic عمر التلمساني, DMG ʿ Umar at- Talmasānī ) was the third Supreme Leader ( Murshid al-' Amm ) of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. He led the Islamist organization from 1972 to 1986 the. At - Talmasani (his name is a variation of Tlemceni, indicating his family origin from the West Algerian town of the same name) led the organization during a period of cooperation and, some observers suggest, the co-optation by the Egyptian state. Although the Brotherhood really legal during at- Talmasanis was not tenure, she was still tolerated and encouraged by President Anwar al-Sadat as a bulwark against leftist opponents and more extreme Islamists.

Life

At- Talmasani was born in 1904 in the Cairo district of Darb al -Ahmar. As a lawyer, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1933, and was introduced by its founder and supreme leader Hassan al -Banna in the organization.

He comes from a famous family of landowners, who owned 300 feddans land and seven houses. His deputy and later successor as supreme leader, Mustafa Maschhur, also belonged to a family of wealthy landowners. Your awareness and their social status led the historian Robert Springborg the late 1980s to the conclusion that " it can be argued reasonably that those who currently lead the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic infitah bourgeoisie originate, and the organization using resources that they gained by working with the Sadat regime, ' bought' have '.

Views

"The U.S. attitude is motivated by several factors, but the most important, in my view, is religious fanaticism. [ ... ] This attitude is a continuation of the crusader invasion of a thousand years ago. "