Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Ahmad ibn Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyah, 

Public Duties in Islam: The Institution of the Hisbah, Al-

Hisba fi al-Islam. Translated by Muhtar Holland (Leicester, 

U.K.: Islamic Foundation, 1982). Michael Cook, Com-

manding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Hizb  al-Daawa  al-Islamiyya

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arty

 

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raq

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Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami

 

(Arabic, also 

spelled Hizb ut-Tahrir; Islamic Liberation 

Party)

Hizb al-Tahrir is a revolutionary Sunni Islamist 

party, an early offshoot of the m

Uslim

  b

rother

-

hood

. It was founded in Jerusalem in 1952 by 

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani (1909–77), a Palestinian 

teacher and judge who had graduated from 

al

-

a

zhar

 University. In the first years of its existence, 

Hizb al-Tahrir opened branches in a number of 

Arab countries, including J

ordan

, s

yria

, l

ebanon

, 

i

raq

,  p

alestine

, and Kuwait. During the 1970s, 

its belief that Arab governments were un-Islamic 

led it to engage in subversive activities, includ-

ing coup attempts against nationalist regimes in 

Iraq,  e

gypt

, and Syria. Guided by its unbending 

authoritarian religious ideology, Hizb al-Tahrir has 

organized itself into networks of small, secretive 

cells that have recruited followers in many parts of 

the world. It looks for new members in 

mosqUe

s, 

religious gatherings, and university campuses. 

Its close-knit organization helps foster solidarity 

among its members and insulates it against out-