Umar al-Tilmisani
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Umar al-Tilmisani عمر التلمساني | |
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3rd General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood | |
In office 11 November 1973 – 22 May 1986 | |
Preceded by | Hassan al-Hudaybi |
Succeeded by | Muhammad Hamid Abu al-Nasr |
Personal details | |
Born | Cairo, Egypt | 4 November 1904
Died | 22 May 1986 Cairo, Egypt | (aged 81)
'Umar al-Tilmisani , also Omar el-tilmisany (
Biography
Al-Tilmisani was born in the Darb al-Ahmar district of Cairo in 1904. A lawyer, al-Tilmisani joined the Brothers in 1933, and was inducted into the organization by its founding General Guide, Hassan al-Banna. [citation needed]
Al-Tilmisani was from a family of prominent landowners, which owned 300 feddans (acres) and seven houses. [citation needed] His deputy, and a later successor as General Guide, Mustafa Mashhur, was also from a family of wealthy landowners. Their prominence and social status led historian Robert Springborg to conclude at the end of the 1980s: "It can reasonably be claimed that those currently in control of the Muslim Brothers are of the Islamic infitah bourgeoisie who 'bought' the organization with resources acquired through collaboration with the Sadat regime".[1]
Salih Ashmawi, a senior Brotherhood member until his expulsion in 1953, asked al-Tilmisani to help him in reviving Al Dawa which had been published in the period 1951–1953 as an official organ of the group.[2] Al-Tilmisani also managed the managed the journal until its demise in 1981.[3] In addition, he published many articles in the journal which appeared on the first page.[3]
Despite heading the group during this period of cooperation with the state, al-Tilmisani was imprisoned three times, once in 1954, as an activist during the Nasser years, and twice while at the head of the group, during Sadat's mass roundup of opponents in 1981, and again under Hosni Mubarak in 1984.[citation needed]
References
- ISBN 0-8133-7643-2.
- ^ Abdullah Al Arian (2011). Heeding the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Egypt (1970-1981) (PhD thesis). Georgetown University. p. 236. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018.
- ^ S2CID 225274860.