Egypt

Jamaat-e-Islami has long regarded the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen) as a kindred movement in the modern history of Islamic revivalism. Founded by Hasan al-Banna in Ismailia in 1928, the Brotherhood emerged from concerns strikingly similar to those that later animated Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi's founding of Jamaat-e-Islami in Lahore in 1941: the erosion of Islamic values under colonial and post-colonial secularism, the need for a disciplined cadre-based organisation rather than a purely devotional or political party, and a comprehensive vision of Islam as encompassing individual reform, social welfare, education, and eventually the political order itself. Though the two movements arose independently in different linguistic and political contexts their founders arrived at parallel diagnoses and parallel methods, and their writings have circulated widely across each other's constituencies. Mawdudi's works were translated into Arabic and studied within Brotherhood circles, while al-Banna's writings and organisational model influenced Jamaat's own structure of membership, tarbiyyah (spiritual-intellectual training), and gradualist da'wah.

This intellectual kinship deepened into fraternal solidarity as both movements faced state repression in their respective countries. Jamaat has consistently expressed solidarity with Brotherhood leaders and members who were imprisoned, tortured, or executed for their activism:

• · Sayyid Qutb, the Brotherhood's most influential ideologue after al-Banna, was executed by the Egyptian state in 1966 following his conviction on charges of conspiracy under Gamal Abdel Nasser. His prison writings, including Ma'alim fi al-Tariq (Milestones), became foundational texts across the wider Islamic movement, and his execution is remembered by Jamaat as emblematic of the price paid by Islamic reformers who challenged authoritarian secular nationalism.
• · Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, was overthrown in the 2013 military coup led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and subsequently imprisoned. He collapsed and died in a Cairo courtroom in June 2019 while facing trial, a death that human rights organisations linked to years of inadequate medical care and prolonged solitary confinement. Jamaat condemned his death as the result of state neglect and mourned him as a leader who had come to power through the ballot box only to be removed by force.
• · Mohammed Badie, the Brotherhood's General Guide (Murshid), has remained imprisoned since 2013, sentenced multiple times including to death and life terms in trials widely criticised by international legal observers as politically motivated and procedurally flawed.
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Jamaat-e-Islami has repeatedly issued statements of protest, held solidarity gatherings, and raised its voice against the crackdown on the Brotherhood following 2013, viewing it as part of a broader pattern of suppression faced by Islamic movements that pursue change through peaceful, democratic, and constitutional means. This relationship reflects Jamaat's broader self-understanding as part of a global fraternity of Islamic movements united not by formal organisational merger but by shared ideological roots, mutual respect, and a common commitment to Islamic revival through education, social reform, and political participation.