By Assem Kamal, IOL Staff

CAIRO, November 14 (IslamOnline) - The Muslim Brotherhood Guide-General Mustafa Mashhour passed away Thursday, November 14, at the age of 83.

Mashhour was admitted to intensive care unit in El-Nozha Hospital Tuesday, October 29, after suffering a brain stroke.

The funeral will issue from Rabei'a El-Adwaia mosque after Friday's prayer November 15.

Mashhour was born in 1919 in El-Sa'dein village in Sharqeya Goveronrate and in 1942, he graduated from the Faculty of Science, Cairo University.

He joined the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1930s and as a member of the movement's body, resisted the British occupation in the early 1940s.

In 1948, Mashhour was sentenced to a three-year prison term before he was acquitted in 1951.

He was arrested later in 1954 along with scores of Muslim Brotherhood leaders after an attempt on the life of late President Gamal Abd el-Nasser which the president blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood.

Mashhour was slapped a ten-year imprisonment term.

He was arrested a few months after his release in early 1965 and remained in prison without trial. He only came out in 1971 after late President Anwar Sadat pardoned all political prisoners.

Mashhour participated in re-building the Muslim Brotherhood after Omar el-Tilmisany was named its Guide-General.

He left Egypt for Kuwait before the arrest of Muslim Brotherhood leaders in 1981.

He then flew to Germany where he spent five years during which he formed the international Muslim Brotherhood group and drafted its bylaws.

Mashhour returned to Egypt in 1986 before the death of Tilmisany.

He was named deputy to then Muslim Brotherhood Guide-General Hamed abul-Nasr.