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	'''Ibrahim Farouk El-Zayat''' ({{lang-ar\|إبراهيم فاروق الزيات}}; born 1968 in [[Marburg]] Germany) is a European Muslim activist in Germany and has been a functionary in many important Islamic organizations in Germany, Europe, and Saudi Arabia.		'''Ibrahim Farouk El-Zayat''' ({{lang-ar\|إبراهيم فاروق الزيات}}; born 1968 in [[Marburg]] Germany) is a European Muslim activist in Germany and has been a functionary in many important Islamic organizations in Germany, Europe, and Saudi Arabia.

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	Ibrahim El-Zayat is the son of Farouk El-Zayat, an Egyptian engineer who left [[Egypt]] in the 1960s and settled in [[Germany]] where he married a German convert to [[Islam]] and who lived in [[Marburg]], a University town north of [[Frankfurt]]. Ibrahim grew up in Marburg where he attended the Martin-Luther-Schule (Gymnasium) in 1987.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.i-g-d.de/cmsde1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=33 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025131033/http://www.i-g-d.de/cmsde1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=33 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=October 25, 2007 \|title=I-G-D e.V. \|access-date=May 20, 2020 \|date=October 25, 2007 }}</ref> He studied industrial engineering and management, law, and economics in Marburg, Darmstadt and Cologne and wrote a thesis on the Islamic economics. El-Zayat is married to married [[Sabiha Erbakan]], the sister of [[Mehmet Sabri Erbakan]], for many years the General Secretary of [[Millî Görüş]] in Germany.<ref name="meforum.org">{{Cite journal \|url=https://www.meforum.org/687/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe\|title=The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe \|first=Lorenzo\|last=Vidino \|access-date=May 20, 2020 \|date=January 1, 2005 \|journal=Middle East Quarterly \|via=www.meforum.org}}</ref>		Ibrahim El-Zayat is the son of Farouk El-Zayat, an Egyptian engineer who left [[Egypt]] in the 1960s and settled in [[Germany]] where he married a German convert to [[Islam]] and who lived in [[Marburg]], a University town north of [[Frankfurt]]. Ibrahim grew up in Marburg where he attended the Martin-Luther-Schule (Gymnasium) in 1987.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.i-g-d.de/cmsde1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=33 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025131033/http://www.i-g-d.de/cmsde1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=33 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=October 25, 2007 \|title=I-G-D e.V. \|access-date=May 20, 2020 \|date=October 25, 2007 }}</ref> He studied industrial engineering and management, law, and economics in Marburg, Darmstadt and Cologne and wrote a thesis on the Islamic economics. El-Zayat is married to married [[Sabiha Erbakan]], the sister of [[Mehmet Sabri Erbakan]], for many years the General Secretary of [[Millî Görüş]] in Germany.<ref name="meforum.org">{{Cite journal \|url=https://www.meforum.org/687/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe\|title=The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe \|first=Lorenzo\|last=Vidino \|access-date=May 20, 2020 \|date=January 1, 2005 \|journal=Middle East Quarterly \|via=www.meforum.org}}</ref>

	==Islamic ~~Organizations~~==		==Islamic organizations==

	El-Zayat became head of the [[Islamic Community of Germany]] (Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland; IGD) in January 2002, following the resignation of [[Ali Ghaleb Himmat]]. El Zayat served in that position for the maximum two terms allowed by the constitution when he was replaced in January 2010.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2010/01/21/head-of-german-muslim-brotherhood-replaced-possibly-facing-criminal-charges/ \|title=Head Of German Muslim Brotherhood Replaced; Possibly Facing Criminal Charges \|access-date=May 20, 2020 \|date=January 21, 2010}}</ref>		El-Zayat became head of the [[Islamic Community of Germany]] (Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland; IGD) in January 2002, following the resignation of [[Ali Ghaleb Himmat]]. El Zayat served in that position for the maximum two terms allowed by the constitution when he was replaced in January 2010.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2010/01/21/head-of-german-muslim-brotherhood-replaced-possibly-facing-criminal-charges/ \|title=Head Of German Muslim Brotherhood Replaced; Possibly Facing Criminal Charges \|access-date=May 20, 2020 \|date=January 21, 2010}}</ref>

	El-Zayat has also served as an officer in a variety of German, European, and Saudi Islamic youth organizations as well as have being a member of a conservative political student organization. Following completion of his studies on Islamic economic systems in 1992, El-Zayat moved to Cologne and was involved with the founding of three Islamic youth organizations, and at one time had been a member of the Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten, an organization describing itself as having “political convictions led by Christian Democratic, conservative and liberal values."<ref name="globalmbwatch.com">http://www.globalmbwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Federation-of-Islamic-Organizations-in-Europe.pdf</ref> He was also at one time the head of the Muslim Students Union and from 1996 to 2002 he was the head of the [[Federation of Muslim Youth and Student Organizations]] (FEMYSO).<ref name="The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West">{{Google books \|id=CStFAAAAQBAJ \|page=RA1-PT54 \|title=The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West }}</ref> El-Zayat has also been the European representative of the [[World Assembly of Muslim Youth]] (WAMY), a worldwide network of largely Saudi-funded youth groups"with headquarters in Saudi Arabia.<ref name="globalmbwatch.com"/>		El-Zayat has also served as an officer in a variety of German, European, and Saudi Islamic youth organizations as well as have being a member of a conservative political student organization. Following completion of his studies on Islamic economic systems in 1992, El-Zayat moved to Cologne and was involved with the founding of three Islamic youth organizations, and at one time had been a member of the Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten, an organization describing itself as having “political convictions led by Christian Democratic, conservative and liberal values."<ref name="globalmbwatch.com">http://www.globalmbwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Federation-of-Islamic-Organizations-in-Europe.pdf {{Bare URL PDF\|date=March 2022}}</ref> He was also at one time the head of the Muslim Students Union and from 1996 to 2002 he was the head of the [[Federation of Muslim Youth and Student Organizations]] (FEMYSO).<ref name="The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West">{{Google books \|id=CStFAAAAQBAJ \|page=RA1-PT54 \|title=The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West }}</ref> El-Zayat has also been the European representative of the [[World Assembly of Muslim Youth]] (WAMY), a worldwide network of largely Saudi-funded youth groups"with headquarters in Saudi Arabia.<ref name="globalmbwatch.com"/>

	El-Zayat was a founder and director of the [[Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe]] (FIOE), heading its public relations department.<ref name="The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West" /><ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113582317237133576\|title=How Islamic Group's Ties Reveal Europe's Challenge \|author=Ian Johnson, Staff Reporter \|work=The Wall Street Journal \|access-date=May 20, 2020 \|date=December 29, 2005 \|via=www.wsj.com}}</ref> He has also been a trustee of the [[Institut Européen des Sciences Humaines]] (IESH) at Chateau-Chinon / France. and a trustee of the [[Europe Trust]].		El-Zayat was a founder and director of the [[Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe]] (FIOE), heading its public relations department.<ref name="The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West" /><ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113582317237133576\|title=How Islamic Group's Ties Reveal Europe's Challenge \|author=Ian Johnson, Staff Reporter \|work=The Wall Street Journal \|access-date=May 20, 2020 \|date=December 29, 2005 \|via=www.wsj.com}}</ref> He has also been a trustee of the [[Institut Européen des Sciences Humaines]] (IESH) at Chateau-Chinon / France. and a trustee of the [[Europe Trust]].
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'''Ibrahim Farouk El-Zayat''' ({{lang-ar|إبراهيم فاروق الزيات}}; born 1968 in [[Marburg]] Germany) is a European Muslim activist in Germany and has been a functionary in many important Islamic organizations in Germany, Europe, and Saudi Arabia.

==Biography==

Ibrahim El-Zayat is the son of Farouk El-Zayat, an Egyptian engineer who left [[Egypt]] in the 1960s and settled in [[Germany]] where he married a German convert to [[Islam]] and who lived in [[Marburg]], a University town north of [[Frankfurt]]. Ibrahim grew up in Marburg where he attended the Martin-Luther-Schule (Gymnasium) in 1987.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.i-g-d.de/cmsde1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=33 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025131033/http://www.i-g-d.de/cmsde1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=33 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2007 |title=I-G-D e.V. |access-date=May 20, 2020 |date=October 25, 2007 }}</ref> He studied industrial engineering and management, law, and economics in Marburg, Darmstadt and Cologne and wrote a thesis on the Islamic economics. El-Zayat is married to married [[Sabiha Erbakan]], the sister of [[Mehmet Sabri Erbakan]], for many years the General Secretary of [[Millî Görüş]] in Germany.<ref name="meforum.org">{{Cite journal |url=https://www.meforum.org/687/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe|title=The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe |first=Lorenzo|last=Vidino |access-date=May 20, 2020 |date=January 1, 2005 |journal=Middle East Quarterly |via=www.meforum.org}}</ref>

==Islamic Organizations==

El-Zayat became head of the [[Islamic Community of Germany]] (Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland; IGD) in January 2002, following the resignation of [[Ali Ghaleb Himmat]]. El Zayat served in that position for the maximum two terms allowed by the constitution when he was replaced in January 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2010/01/21/head-of-german-muslim-brotherhood-replaced-possibly-facing-criminal-charges/ |title=Head Of German Muslim Brotherhood Replaced; Possibly Facing Criminal Charges |access-date=May 20, 2020 |date=January 21, 2010}}</ref>

El-Zayat has also served as an officer in a variety of German, European, and Saudi Islamic youth organizations as well as have being a member of a conservative political student organization. Following completion of his studies on Islamic economic systems in 1992, El-Zayat moved to Cologne and was involved with the founding of three Islamic youth organizations, and at one time had been a member of the Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten, an organization describing itself as having “political convictions led by Christian Democratic, conservative and liberal values."<ref name="globalmbwatch.com">http://www.globalmbwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Federation-of-Islamic-Organizations-in-Europe.pdf</ref> He was also at one time the head of the Muslim Students Union and from 1996 to 2002 he was the head of the [[Federation of Muslim Youth and Student Organizations]] (FEMYSO).<ref name="The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West">{{Google books |id=CStFAAAAQBAJ |page=RA1-PT54 |title=The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West }}</ref> El-Zayat has also been the European representative of the [[World Assembly of Muslim Youth]] (WAMY), a worldwide network of largely Saudi-funded youth groups"with headquarters in Saudi Arabia.<ref name="globalmbwatch.com"/>

El-Zayat was a founder and director of the [[Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe]] (FIOE), heading its public relations department.<ref name="The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113582317237133576|title=How Islamic Group's Ties Reveal Europe's Challenge |author=Ian Johnson, Staff Reporter |work=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=May 20, 2020 |date=December 29, 2005 |via=www.wsj.com}}</ref> He has also been a trustee of the [[Institut Européen des Sciences Humaines]] (IESH) at Chateau-Chinon / France. and a trustee of the [[Europe Trust]].

In 1995, El-Zayat co-founded the "Gesellschaft Muslimischer Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaftler/Innen e.V.“ (GMSG).{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}

He is also on the board of trustees of the Muslim charity "Islamic Relief Germany" as being a trustee of "Islamic Relief Worldwide in Birmingham (UK).{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}

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