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The Hamas prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, has clawed control over finance away from Mr Meshal.Lingering suspicion of the Ikhwan in Western chanceries, meanwhile, is shared by many of the Arab world's remaining autocrats.

More puritanical Islamists, such as the Salafists whose Nour Party came a surprisingly close second to the Ikhwan in Egypt's elections, accuse the Brothers of diluting the Islamist agenda so as to soothe Western fears.

The Al Saud -- in this 20th century renaissance -- were led by the laconic and politically astute Abd-al Aziz, who, on uniting the fractious Bedouin tribes, launched the Saudi "Ikhwan" in the spirit of Abd-al Wahhab's and Ibn Saud's earlier fighting proselytisers.

This clash with the authorities prompted an important shift in the ideology of the Ikhwan, evident in the writing of one prominent member, Sayyid Qutb.

Fahmi al-Huweidi, a veteran political commentator, said: "I was against the idea of Ikhwan participation in the elections, for the presidency or the government.

The Brotherhood, known in Arabic as the Ikhwan, was founded in Egypt more than 80 years ago and launched the modern phenomenon of political Islam, which had been seen as one of the big winners of the uprisings of the Arab spring.

In the same manner as earlier, the Ikhwan again succeeded in capturing Mecca, Medina and Jeddah between 1914 and 1926.

In 1965, the government again cracked down on the Ikhwan, executing Qutb in 1966 and transforming him into a martyr for many people across the region.

In 2000, the Ikhwan won 17 seats in the lower house of parliament, the People's Assembly.

Beginning in the early 1990s, India's security forces used Ikhwan to combat terrorism in the Srinagar Valley.

The National Islamic Front, the Ikhwan's political vehicle in Sudan, backed a military coup in 1989 and was rewarded with a slew of cabinet posts.