Encyclopedia of Islam

Moses

  

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Sayyid  q

Utb

 (d. 1966) and 

Jihad

 

movements

 in 

Egypt condemned J

amal

  a

bd

 

al

-n

asir

 (d. 1970) 

and  a

nWar

 

al

-s

adat

 (d. 1981), both presidents 

of Egypt, for being equivalents to the unbeliev-

ing pharaoh who opposed Moses; members of 

the Jihad Group assassinated al-Sadat for being 

a disbeliever. During the i

ranian

  r

evolUtion

 

oF

1978–79, government troops were cautioned not 

to “kill Moses [members of the Islamic opposi-

tion] for the sake of pharaoh [the Shah’s regime].” 

In other words, they were not to kill the Islamic 

revolutionaries and their masses of supporters. 

A well-known revolutionary poster of the time 

showed Ayatollah r

Uhollah

  k

homeini

 standing 

over a fallen shah, with the phrase “For every 

pharaoh there is a Moses” inscribed over the 

Ayatollah’s head, thus identifying the revolution’s 

foremost leader with the prophet.

See also 

imam

;  i

slamism

; J

Udaism

 

and

  i

slam

; 

kafir

; 

prophets

 

and

 

prophecy

.