Hassan al Hodeiby

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Hassan al Hodeiby (also Hassan al-Hudaybi) (Arabic: حسن الهضيبى ) w (1921 - 2004) was the second "Supreme Guide", or leader, of the Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood, appointed after founder Hassan al-Banna's assassination in 1949. He is credited with writing the book Preachers, Not Judges, (Du'at la Qudat), reputedly an "indirect but clear refutation" of Sayyid Qutb's Islamist manifesto Ma'alim fi al-Tariq (Milestones),[1][2] and an argument against takfir of other Muslims.[3]

According to www.salaam.co.uk Hodeiby was born in 1921 "Sohag, in southern Egypt, studied law and joined judiciary in 1941, eventually becoming head of the appeals court in the early 1960s." He was arrested in 1965 in the crackdown against the Brethren by Pres. Nasser but and freed with other political prisoners in 1971 by Anwar al-Saadat following Nasser's death. In 1987 he became the main opposition spokesman and the deputy leader of the parliamentary party in 1996 and died in 2004. [4]

According to scholar Emmanuel Sivan, Hodeiby's argument against the idea promoted in Milestones - that Islam had disappeared and so-called Muslim governments were actually non-Islamic "Jahiliyyah" that must be abolished by "physical power and Jihaad"[5] - was that "Judgment as to whether major sins committed exclude a Muslim from the umma, ... should be left to God alone. Collective judgement over the whole of the umma is even more contrary to the tents of Islam. Hurling the epithet jahili upon Muslims societies today is thus absurd."[6]

Some dispute his authorship of Preachers, Not Judges,[7] and/or describe him not as a critic of Qutbism but a supporter who hailed Milestones as the ideological future of the Musilm Brotherhood, and Qutb as "the future of the Muslim mission" (da'wa). [8]

[edit] References

  1. ^ James Traub, "Islamist Democrats," New York Times Magazine, April 29, 2007
  2. ^ Robert Leiken and Steven Brooke, "The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood", Foreign Affairs, March/April 2007
  3. ^ Sivan, Emmanuel (1985). Radical Islam : Medieval Theology and Modern Politics. Yale University Press. 
  4. ^ Salaam biographical dictionary
  5. ^ Qutb, Sayyid, Milestones, p.9, 55
  6. ^ Sivan, Radical Islam, (1985), p.108-9
  7. ^ The US and the Muslim Brotherhood
  8. ^ Kepel, Gilles, Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and the Pharaoh [University of California Press, 1993], p. 30
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