Jankowski, James

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Ḥusayn, Aḥmad

by Jankowski, James

fromEncyclopaedia of Islam, THREE

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Aḥmad Ḥusayn (1908–82) was an Egyptian lawyer and nationalist politician, and co-founder of the paramilitary movement the Young Egypt Society ( Jamʿiyyat Miṣr al-Fatāh). He was born on 8 March 1908 in Cairo, where his father, Maḥmūd Ḥusayn, was a civil servant in the Ministry of…

Miṣr al-Fatāt

by Jankowski, James

fromEncyclopaedia of Islam, THREE

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Miṣr al-Fatāt (Young Egypt) was initially a youth movement, later a formal political party, active in Egyptian public life from 1933 until 1953. The organisation had its roots in the Egyptian youth activism of the early 1930s, emerging from the Piastre Plan (Mashrūʿ al-Qirsh), a…