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The Muslim Brotherhood gained its first foothold in Germany when the Geneva-based Egyptian Said Ramadan (1926–1995), a close confidant and son-in-law of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, took over the Islamic Center in Munich (Islamisches Zentrum München) in 1960.
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The first English edition of the text was published in 1961. Said Ramadan, Islamic Law: Its Scope and Equity (London: Macmillan, 1961). The thesis has been published in numerous German and English editions.
Karl Binswanger, “Fundamentalisten-Filz—Getrennt marschieren, vereint schlagen?” in Bahman Nirumand (ed.), Im Namen Allahs: Islamische Gruppen und der Fundamentalismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Köln: Dreisam 1990), pp. 129–148 (143).
Until 1981, the Islamic Center Aachen had been a member of the IGD. Johannes Grundmann, Islamische Internationalisten (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2005), p. 59.
Reinhard Schulze, Islamischer Internationalismus im 20: Jahrhundert: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Islamischen Weltliga (Leiden: Brill, 1990).
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Steinberg, G. (2010). The Muslim Brotherhood in Germany. In: Rubin, B. (eds) The Muslim Brotherhood. The Middle East in Focus. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106871_11
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