Sayyid Quṭb

Author : John Calvert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199365388

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Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert Pdf

Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and work, the popular media has conflated Qutb's moral purpose with the aims of bin Laden and al-Qaeda. He is often portrayed as a terrorist, Islamo-Fascist, and advocate of murder. This book rescues Qutb from misrepresentation, tracing the evolution of his thought within the context of his time. An expert on social protest and political resistance in the modern Middle East, as well as Egyptian nationalism, John Calvert recounts Qutb's life from the small village in which he was raised to his execution at the behest of Abd al-Nasser's regime. His study remains sensitive to the cultural, political, social, and economic circumstances that shaped Qutb's thought-major developments that composed one of the most eventful periods in Egyptian history. These years witnessed the full flush of Britain's tutelary regime, the advent of Egyptian nationalism, and the political hegemony of the Free Officers. Qutb rubbed shoulders with Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Abd al-Nasser himself, though his Islamism originally had little to do with religion. Only in response to his harrowing experience in prison did Qutb come to regard Islam and kufr (infidelity) as oppositional, antithetical, and therefore mutually exclusive. Calvert shows how Qutb repackaged and reformulated the Islamic heritage to pose a challenge to authority, including those who claimed (falsely, he believed) to be Muslim.

Author : James Toth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199969609

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Sayyid Qutb by James Toth Pdf

Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden. But Qutb has too often been treated maliciously or reductively-"the Philosopher of Islamic Terror," as Paul Berman famously put it in the New York Times Magazine. James Toth offers an even-handed account of Sayyid Qutb and shows him to be a much more complex figure than the many one-dimensional portraits would have us believe. Qutb first gained notice as a novelist, literary critic, and poet but then turned to religious and political criticism aimed at the Egyptian government and Muslims he deemed insufficiently pious. After a two-year sojourn in the U.S., he returned to Egypt even more radicalized and joined the Muslim Brotherhood, eventually taking charge of its propaganda operation. When Brotherhood members were accused of assassinating Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the group was outlawed and Qutb imprisoned. He was executed in 1966, becoming the first martyr to the Islamist cause. Using an analytical approach that investigates without passing judgment, Toth traces the life and thought of Qutb, giving attention not only to his well-known Signposts on the Road, but also to his less-studied works like Social Justice in Islam and his 30-volume Qur'anic commentary, In the Shade of the Qur'an. Toth's aim is to give Qutb's ideas a fair hearing, to measure their impact, and to treat him like other intellectuals who inspire revolutions, however unpopular they may be. In offering a more nuanced account of Qutb, one that moves beyond the cartoonish depictions of him as the evil genius lurking behind today's terrorists, Sayyid Qutb deepens our understanding of a central figure of radical Islam and, indeed, our understanding of radical Islam itself.

Author : Sayyid Qutb
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815608073

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A Child From the Village by Sayyid Qutb Pdf

Well known throughout the Islamic world as the foundational thinker for a significant portion of the contemporary Muslim intelligentsia, Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966) was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and was jailed by Gamal Abdul Nasser’s government in 1954. He became one of the most uncompromising voices of the movement we now call Islamism and is perhaps best known for his book, Ma`lam fi al-tariq. A Child from the Village was written just prior to Qutb’s conversion to the Islamist cause and reflects his concerns for social justice. Interst in Qutb’s writing has increased in the West since Islamism has emerged as a power on the world scene. In this memoir, Qutb recalls his childhood in the village of Musha in Upper Egypt. He chronicles the period between 1912 and 1918, a time immensely influential in the creation of modern Egypt. Written with much tenderness toward childhood memories, it has become a classic in modern Arabic autobiography. Qutb offers a clear picture of Egyptian village life in the early twentieth century, its customs and lore, educational system, religious festivals, relations with the central government, and the struggle to modernize and retain its identity. Translators John Calvert and William Shepard capture the beauty and intensity of Qutb’s prose.

Author : Giedre Šabaseviciute
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815655299

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Sayyid Qutb by Giedre Šabaseviciute Pdf

No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb is known to have abandoned literature in the 1950s in favor of Islamism, becoming its most prominent ideologist to this day. In a sharp departure from this common narrative, Šabaseviciute offers a fresh perspective on Qutb’s life that examines his Islamist commitment as a continuation of his literary project. Contrary to the notion of Islam’s incompatibility with literature, the book argues that Islamism provided as Qutb with a novel way to pursue his metaphysical quest at a time when the rising anti-colonial movement brought the Romantic models of literature to their demise. Drawing upon unexplored material on Qutb’s life—book reviews, criticism, intellectual collaborations, memoirs, and personal interviews with his former acquaintances—Šabaseviciute traces the development of Qutb’s thought in line with his shifting networks of friendship and patronage. In a distinct sociological take on Arab intellectual and literary history, this book unveils the unexplored dimensions of Qutb’s involvement in Cairo’s burgeoning cultural scene.

Author : Badmas 'Lanre Yusuf
Publisher : The Other Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9789675062278

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Sayyid Quṭb by Badmas 'Lanre Yusuf Pdf

Author : Sayyid Quṭb
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1450590640

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Milestones by Sayyid Quṭb Pdf

On Islam and Islamic civilization.

Author : Sayyid Quṭb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015073906458

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The Sayyid Qutb Reader by Sayyid Quṭb Pdf

Albert Bergesen brings together for the first time the writings of Sayyid Qutb, the man who has been called in the media 'bin Laden's brain.'

Author : John Calvert
Publisher : Hurst & Company Limited
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199326877

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Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert Pdf

Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and work, the popular media has conflated Qutb's moral purpose with the aims of bin Laden and al-Qaeda. He is often portrayed as a terrorist, Islamo-Fascist, and advocate of murder. This book rescues Qutb from misrepresentation, tracing the evolution of his thought within the context of his time. An expert on social protest and political resistance in the modern Middle East, as well as Egyptian nationalism, John Calvert recounts Qutb's life from the small village in which he was raised to his execution at the behest of Abd al-Nasser's regime. His study remains sensitive to the cultural, political, social, and economic circumstances that shaped Qutb's thought-major developments that composed one of the most eventful periods in Egyptian history. These years witnessed the full flush of Britain's tutelary regime, the advent of Egyptian nationalism, and the political hegemony of the Free Officers. Qutb rubbed shoulders with Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Abd al-Nasser himself, though his Islamism originally had little to do with religion. Only in response to his harrowing experience in prison did Qutb come to regard Islam and kufr (infidelity) as oppositional, antithetical, and therefore mutually exclusive. Calvert shows how Qutb repackaged and reformulated the Islamic heritage to pose a challenge to authority, including those who claimed (falsely, he believed) to be Muslim.

Author : Sayyid Quṭb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Islam
ISBN : PSU:000017213134

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This Religion of Islam by Sayyid Quṭb Pdf

Author : Sayed Khatab
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134185184

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The Political Thought of Sayyid Qutb by Sayed Khatab Pdf

The book is especially topical and could be marketed world-wide It shows the intellectual origins, the conceptual and methodological thinking of radical Islamist movement in the modern world Sayyid Qutb is probably the most influential political thinker for contemporary Islamists and has greatly influenced the likes of Bin Laden. It is therefore helpful in providing an understanding of radical Islamic fundamentalists which makes this book extremely relevant since the events of September 11th The book provides a new analysis of Qtub and is an important contribution to this topic

Author : Adnan Musallam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313049408

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From Secularism to Jihad by Adnan Musallam Pdf

The modern political idea of jihad—a violent struggle against corrupt or anti-Islamic regimes—is essentially the brainchild of one man who turned traditional Islamic precepts inside out and created the modern radical political Islamist movement. Using the evolution of Sayyid Qutb's life and writings, Musallam traces and analyzes Qutb's alienation and subsequent emergence as an independent Islamist within the context of his society and the problems that it faced. Radicalized following his stay in the United States in the late 1940s and during his imprisonment from 1954 to 1964, Qutb would pen controversial writings that would have a significant impact on young Islamists in Egypt for decades following his death and on global jihadist Islamists for the past quarter century. Since September 11, 2001, the West has dubbed Qutb the philosopher of Islamic terror and godfather ideologue of al-Qaeda. This is the first book to examine his life and thought in the wake of the events that ignited the War on Terrorism. A secular man of letters in the 1930s and 1940s, Qutb's outlook and focus on Quranic studies underwent drastic changes during World War II. The Quran became a refuge for his personal needs and for answers to the ills of his society. As a result, he forsook literature permanently for the Islamic cause and way of life. His stay in the United States from 1948 to 1950 reinforced his deeply held belief that Islam is man's only salvation from the abyss of Godless materialism he believed to be manifest in both capitalism and communism. Qutb's active opposition to the secular policies of Egyptian President Nasser led to his imprisonment from 1954 to 1964, during which his writings called for the overthrow of Jahili (pagan) governments and their replacement with a true and just Islamic society. A later arrest and trial resulted in his execution in August 1966.

Author : Fawaz A. Gerges
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691196466

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Making the Arab World by Fawaz A. Gerges Pdf

Based on a decade of research, including in-depth interviews with many leading figures in the story, this edition is essential for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the turmoil engulfing the Middle East, from civil wars to the rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Author : Sayyid Quṭb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004101527

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Sayyid Qutab and Islamic Activism by Sayyid Quṭb Pdf

"Social Justice in Islam" was written by an Egyptian Islamic writer who has greatly influenced current activists. This work shows the development of the author's thinking by translating the last edition and giving alternative readings from the earlier ones.

Author : Olivier Carré
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004491205

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Mysticism and Politics by Olivier Carré Pdf

This volume deals with Sayyid Quṭb's commentary, compared to ‘Abduh's and Riḍā's 'Tafsīr al-Manār', discussing his method of reading the Qur’ān, elements of his dogmatic theology, of his faith and spirituality and of the Muslim practices.The book then evaluates his doctrine concerning Judaism and Christianity, the status of their followers in the ideal Islamic society to be reinstated, Muslim family and Islamic emancipation of women. It evaluates which Islamic State will be able to accomplish and lead this Qur’ānic society, and what will be its 'dynamic Law' and the new economic order and social justice. The book finally looks at the essential role the permanent war-for-God should have in the face of new worldwide anti-Islamic paganism, and it concludes with extremism (of Quṭb and, more, of the 'Quṭbists') and with the promising muslim thinking in resistance to it. The large Selection of texts of 'Fī ẓilāl...', translated by W. Shepard, is very valuable.

Author : Sayyid Quṭb,William E. Shepard
Publisher : Brill
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Islam
ISBN : UOM:39015038016435

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Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Activism by Sayyid Quṭb,William E. Shepard Pdf

Social Justice in Islam was written by an Egyptian Islamic writer who has greatly influenced current activists. This work shows the development of the author's thinking by translating the last edition and giving alternative readings from the earlier ones.