Sayyid qutb

Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb (9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the.
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
'This rich and carefully researched biography sets Qutb for the first time in his Egyptian context.

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Robert Manne is Emeritus Professor and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University. His most recent book is The Mind of the Islamic State.

Sayyid Qutb was a distinguished and prolific Egyptian essayist, literary critic and educational civil servant who, around the age of forty, turned from secularism towards Islam and the study of the Qur'an.

Qutb's political and religious essays were by now sufficiently radical to disturb the Palace. According to one account, one of his superiors in the Ministry of Education suggested that his outlook might moderate if he was encouraged to embark on a study tour in the United States.

Qutb's American experience did not have the desired effect. He was appalled by the racism, the sexual freedom and the materialism he encountered.

In the early 1950s, on his return to Egypt, Qutb '"gravitated" into the orbit of the Muslim Brothers. By this time, the monarchy had been overthrown in what was known as the Free Officer's Revolution. Initially, Qutb enjoyed close relations with its leader, Gamal

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6. Young Sayyid Qutb

Gerges, Fawaz. "6. Young Sayyid Qutb". Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 175-186. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400890071-008

Gerges, F. (2018). 6. Young Sayyid Qutb. In Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East (pp. 175-186). Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400890071-008

Gerges, F. 2018. 6. Young Sayyid Qutb. Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 175-186. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400890071-008

Gerges, Fawaz. "6. Young Sayyid Qutb" In Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East, 175-186. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400890071-008

Gerges F. 6. Young Sayyid Qutb. In: Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2018. p.175-186. https://doi.org/10.15

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Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism

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The influential Egyptian ideologue Sayyid Qutb (1906-66) is credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post-colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking understanding of Qutb’s life and work, the popular media has often conflated his aims with those of bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, portraying him as a terrorist, ‘Islamo-Fascist’ and advocate of murder.

John Calvert, an expert on Middle Eastern dissent in general and Egyptian nationalism in particular, rescues Qutb from these misrepresentations. He recounts Qutb’s life, from his small childhood village to his execution by the regime, via the harrowing incarceration that injected religion into his Islamism. Most importantly, Calvert traces the evolution of Qutb’s thought in its context—one of the most eventful periods in Egyptian history. In these years of British tutelage, rising nationalism and Free Officer hegemony, Qutb rubbed shoulders with other great Egyptian thinkers, from Naguib Mahfouz to political giants like Taha Husayn and Nasser himself.