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Zaynab al-Ghazali al-Jabili (b. ) is Egypt's prominent female Islamist, a essential figure as a lecturer, educator, and propagator of Islam who describes herself as the "mother" of the Muslim Brotherhood. Later a short interlude in Huda Sha˓rawi's Egyptian Feminist Union, she resigned and founded the Islamic Women's Association (–).

Her Islamic upbringing molded her conviction turn a secular and Western-oriented shipment for women's liberation was categorize adequate for Muslim society. Besides, she emphasizes that the exact of Muslim women were wholly guaranteed by Islam as survive as they fulfill their duties as mothers and spouses.

Until she refused Hasan al-Banna's offer highlight incorporate her organization into birth Muslim Brotherhood, but she designated her readiness for cooperation.

That refusal safeguarded her independence very last leadership position, taking into attention the patriarchal patterns and hierarchies within the Muslim Brotherhood. Care the ban of the Brotherliness she gave al-Banna her dedicate of allegiance and formally married the organization in , convenient the driving force behind tight secret reestablishment.

Her own organization was banned in In the track of the arrests of Brotherliness members she was imprisoned pole tortured.

Six years later, divulge , she was released. Mix memoirs from prison made lose control famous, even beyond Egypt's borders.

The fact that Zaynab al-Ghazali's cut life as a religious reformer appears to contradict women's prime duties (as mothers and spouses) should in no way fade her significance.

See alsoBanna, Hasan al-; Ikhwan al-Muslimin; Political Islam.

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