Ma'mun al-Hudaybi ( ar, مأمون الهضيبي) (May 28, 1921 – January 8, 2004) was the sixth General Guide of the

Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood ( ar, جماعة الاخوان المسلمين ''jamāʿat /al-ikhwan/el-ekhwan al-muslimīn'', ) is a Sunni Islamist religious, political, and social movement,Eric Trager,The Unbreakable Muslim Brotherhood" ...

. He briefly succeeded

Mustafa Mashhur Mustafa Mashhur ( ar, مصطفى مشهور; 15 September 1921 – 29 October 2002) was the fifth General Guide (leader) of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. He was the official head of the Muslim Brotherhood organization from 1996 until 2002, al ...

as General Guide in 2002, and headed the Islamist group until his death on January 8, 2004. His successor was

Mohammed Mahdi Akef Mohammed Mahdi Akef ( ar, محمد مهدي عاكف; July 12, 1928 – September 22, 2017) was the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egypt-based Islamic political movement, from 2004 until 2010. He assumed the post, that of "general guide" ( a ...

. Ma'mun al-Hudaybi was the son of the second General Guide, Hassan al-Hudaybi.

Early life and education

He was born in

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, in

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on May 28, 1921. His family was originally from ‘Arab al-Sawalha in Qalyubiyya, but moved wherever his father's work as a judge for the Justice Ministry took them. He received a public education before graduating from the King Fouad University

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Political Beliefs

Hudaybi is an important figure in Egyptian Islamist politics. In terms of internal political organization, he is reported by historian

Fawaz Gerges Fawaz (sometimes, Fawwaz or Fawez) is a masculine Arabic given name and a surname. Its literal meaning is "winner", as it is the masculine adjective from the verb ''fāz'', meaning "he won". Therefore, it can be thought of as the equivalent to the ...

as believing that "members must show obedience to the senior leadership."Gerges, Fawaz A. ''Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Page 27. 978-0-691-16788-6

References

1921 births 2004 deaths Cairo University alumni Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leaders People from Sohag Governorate {{Islam-bio-stub