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| 1928 |
| | | Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, founds the Muslim Brotherhood – to campaign for a society based on the Qu'ran with the sharia as its legal system | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Wallace D. Fard founds the Nation of Islam as a black separatist movement in the USA | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | | Sectarian hostilities increase in Kashmir, with the Muslim majority resenting the favours shown by the British to the Sikh and Hindu elite | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Elijah Muhammad takes control of the Nation of Islam, or Black Muslims, and leads the movement for more than 40 years | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Mohammed Ali Jinnah puts forward the concept of independent Muslim states within India | |
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| 1947 |
| | | In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Muslims proclaim an independent state in west Kashmir, defying the wishes of the maharaja | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The Muslim Brotherhood carries out acts of terrorism against the Egyptian authorities and British troops | |
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