A Crisis‐Centered Approach to Hassan al‐Banna’s Political Thought

Hassan al‐Banna is considered as one of the effective Islamic thinkers for establishing the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. Analyzing his thought with new approaches will open up new horizons for researchers. From the perspective of intellectual reformist movement in the Islamic world to which Hassan al‐Banna belong, the Islamic world is facing multiple crises that result from distance from the pure Islam. The advent of sociological approaches, like Sprigens’ crisis theory, will provide the opportunity to reinterpret his political thought. Based on that approach, the main research questions of this study are what the current major crisis of the Islamic world is from Hassan al‐Banna’s perspective and what solutions to resolve the crisis can be offered based on his political thought. This paper initially analyzes the subjective and objective circumstances that influenced Hassan al‐ Banna’s political thought and then seeks to answer the main research question on the basis of the four stages of Sprigens’ theory of crisis.