Intellectual and political currents in the Gulf - the Muslim Brotherhood as a model

Abstract

    The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the political Islamist groups that has long historical roots in the Arab Gulf countries and has been able to gain popularity among important segments of Gulf society.

Especially among the youth, religious men and intellectuals through their policy of spreading the values and ideas of the group through their penetration of educational institutions in these countries, despite the state of harmony between the group and the Gulf governments in the seventies and eighties. However, this relationship began to deteriorate in the 1990s, reaching a state of hostility during the so-called Arab Spring. Some Gulf countries considered the group a threat to their existence, and subsequently banned the group and supported counter-revolutions in several Gulf countries, which negatively impacted the group's activity in the Gulf.