Sayyid Qutb
Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary (1906-1966) · Egypt · Activists · Died at 59
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Something wrong?An Egyptian schoolteacher turned theorist whose books on political Islam - written partly in Nasser's prisons before his 1966 execution - became founding texts for militant movements decades after his death.
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, Islam's way of life is unique, for in systems other than Islam, some people worship others in some form or another.
It is not the intention of Islam to force its beliefs on people, but Islam is not merely ‘belief’.
Islam knows only two kinds of societies, the Islamic and the Jahili.
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About this person
Sayyid Qutb was born on 9 October 1906 in Egypt, where he began as a literary critic and educator whose writings entered university curricula by the mid-1940s. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood and produced 24 published books and at least 581 articles, including a 30-volume Qur'an commentary, arguing that Islam demanded a total social and political order and advocating offensive jihad. A stint in the United States deepened his contempt for what he saw as materialistic, violent, sexually obsessed Western culture. In 1966 he was convicted of plotting to assassinate President Gamal Abdel Nasser and hanged. His execution made him a martyr whose ideas - particularly on Jahiliyya and the inseparability of sharia from monotheism - seeded the ideological framework for al-Qaeda and movements his opponents now call Qutbist.
Activists from Egypt 4
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