Umar al-Tilmisani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Third General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers
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Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
About Umar al-Tilmisani
- 'Umar al-Tilmisani (Arabic: ??? ??????????, IPA: ['?om??? et.telme'sæ?ni]; most often transliterated as Omar el Telmesany or Telmesani ) (4 November 1904 – 22 May 1986) was the third General Guide (Murshid al-'Am) of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers.
- He headed the Egyptian Islamist organization from 1972 until 1986.
- Al-Tilmisani (his name is a variation on Tlemceni, reflecting his family origin in the Western Algerian city of that name) headed the Muslim Brothers during a period of cooperation and, some observers suggest, cooptation by the Egyptian state.
- While the Brothers were not precisely legal during Tilmisani's term, they were tolerated and encouraged by President Anwar al-Sadat as a bulwark against both leftist opponents and more extremist Islamists.
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