Mujama al-Islamiya

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The Mujama' al-Islami (Arabic: المجمع الإسلامي, lit. 'Islamic Centre') is an Islamic charity founded in 1973 in Gaza by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who had been involved with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. Mujama established clinics, blood banks, day cares, medical treatments, soup kitchens and youth clubs, and extended financial aid and scholarships to young people seeking to study in Saudi Arabia and the West. In 1979, Israel recognized Al-Mujama' al-Islam as a charity, allowing the organization to set up the Islamic University in Gaza (IUG) and build mosques, clubs, schools, and a library in Gaza.

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Mujama al-Islamiya was an Islamic charity founded in Gaza in 1973 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Through 2015 the opening said "In 1987, Yassin and six other Mujama Islamists launched Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance Movement." Today the word does not appear in the opening, though it survives once in the body, and the opening describes the charity only through its clinics, blood banks, and scholarships. A reader today learns that the charity ran social services, not that its own founder and members went on to launch Hamas.

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