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In the aftermath of the collapse of the Ottoman and German empires and in parallel to the rise of Arab nationalism, the Muslim Brotherhood is building a transnational ideology: political Islamism. The movement aims to be a widespread form of societal governance and management, as an alternative to what the West has to offer. The Muslim Brotherhood, in its varying national significances, seeks to impose a political project on Arab and Western states based on a radical reading of the Koran. This article focuses on the temporal dimension of this movement, which is now firmly anchored in the political offer.