Quarterly Journal of Political
Research in Islamic World

The Muslim Brotherhood, as one of the oldest political-religious parties in the Middle East, has been able to make eye-catching political achievements in a number of countries such as Turkey and Egypt in the past two decades. As the birthplace of this political party, Egypt, with the removal of military dictatorship in 2010, turned into a base for the Muslim Brotherhood to wield power after 84 years of campaign and activity. Morsi’s victory, the candidate of the congregation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt’s presidential election in 2012 and government formed by his own association, ten years after the victory of the justice and development party in Turkey, minds led to such a direction that the Muslim Brotherhood at the height of power with public support, to fulfill their stated objectives, but some transitions led to the failure of this organized and coherent party in Egypt after a short while, resulting in the downfall of the government born of it, as a result of which a far-reaching crisis swept the country. The events of the summer of 2013 and fall of Morsi in less than a year and the arrest of leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, however, after 84 years of bloody fighting, by self-made irreparable errors, provided background for discontent of the people and also presence of army to facilitate its overthrow, can be currently considered as a remarkable political event that calls many analysis.