Liberals view him as an uncompromising religious conservative and even within the Muslim Brotherhood some doubt his ability to lead. Will Mohamed Badie succeed in uniting the Muslim Brotherhood and

Portraying the Muslim Brotherhood as eager and able to seize power and impose its version of sharia on an unwilling citizenry is a caricature that exaggerates certain features of the

All eyes are on Egypt's biggest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood. What are the Brotherhood's goals?

Western fears of 'Islamism' have been aided by Arab autocrats seeking to prolong their iron-fisted rule.

In a special interview with onislam.net, the Islamic thinker Rashid Al-Ghannoshi, Head of the Tunisian Renaissance Movement, said that it is important to review many widespread concepts that are considered

During the Second World War, Sayyid Qutb commuted to his government job in central Cairo on a train that ran north from his home in the suburb of Helwan.

After a series of books established him as a world-famous analyst of radical Islam, Gilles Kepel decided to stop writing and start mapping a renaissance in Gulf-Europe relations. John Gravois

The decades-old battle between the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition group, and Egypt's authoritarian regime has entered its latest phase. This time it's not a matter of prison terms or

Locked up in an Egyptian prison in the early 1960s, Sayyid Qutb wrote a book that has inspired succeeding generations of radical Islamists

Locked up in an Egyptian prison in the early 1960s, Sayyid Qutb wrote a book that has inspired successive generations of Islamists.