Muslim Brotherhood of Iraq Arabic: الإخوان المسلمون في العراق | |
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Leader: | Ziad Shafiq al-Rawi |
Foundation: | 1940 |
Ideology: | Pan-Islamism Sunni Islamism |
Headquarters: | Baghdad |
International: | Muslim Brotherhood |
Country: | Iraq |
Founders: | Muhammad Mahmoud al-Sawaf |
Legalised: | 1949 (as the Islamic Brotherhood Association) 1963 2003 |
Banned: | 1961 1968 |
Membership: | 5,000 |
Position: | Right-wing to far-right |
Wing1 Title: | Armed wing |
Wing1: | Hamas (2007-2011, unclear) |
Wing2 Title: | Political wing |
Wing2: | Islamic Party |
Flag: | Flag of the Muslim Brotherhood.svg |
The Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq (Arabic: الإخوان المسلمون في العراق|translit=al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn fī al-ʿIrāq) is an Iraqi branch of the Sunni Islamist Muslim Brotherhood organization. The group was founded in 1940, and became legal in 1949 under the name of the Islamic Brotherhood Association.[1]