Sayyid Qutb was not. Initially Sayyid Qutb was a secular man of letters in Egypt, before he converted fully to Islamic ideas in the 1940s. But Qutb had a unique personality. First he spent quite a ...

Sayyid Qutb was executed in 1966 for his role in a failed conspiracy against the Nasser regime. Yet his call for Muslims to replace the sovereignty of man with that of God continues to haunt ...

Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual James Toth. Oxford Univ., $35 (400p) ISBN 978-0-19-979088-3 ...

He has written about and translated into English, some of the writings of the Egyptian Islamist we've been talking about today, Sayyid Qutb. Thanks for listening to The Philosopher's Zone . I'm ...

Before Sayyid Qutb became a leading theorist of violent jihad, he was a little-known Egyptian writer sojourning in the United States, where he attended a small teachers college on the Great Plains ...

Egyptian Sayyid Qutb's writings were the foundation for al Qaeda and other radical Islamic movements. But the America he visited in 1949 -- the conservative town of Greeley, Colo. -- doesn't ...

Sayyid Qutb’s ‘Milestones’, published in 1964, has been the ideological force behind a succession of violent Islamist groups Georges Fahmi 26 July 2021, 8.13am ...

Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptian educator, writer and literary critic. He was also a founding theorist of jihadism and one of the few intellectuals that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has produced in its ...

Sayyid Qutb near the end of his life. ... It was written by an Egyptian scholar, Sayyid Qutb, who was executed 50 years ago and lived, for a brief time, in the northern Colorado city of Greeley.