Sayyid Qutb: Poet, Reactionary, Islamist (Part 1)

When it comes to the modern era, no Islamic intellectual has
influenced modern Salafi Jihadism more than Sayyid Qutb. This
unlikely Egyptian, steeped in Western literature and poetry, would
come to define the ideological basis for modern Islamism. He was a
poet, a writer and an aesthete who was a classic product of the
tumult of the early twentieth century. How he became the most
significant Islamist thinker today is quite the story… In this
first of two episodes on this radical romantic, we take a look at
Qutb’s formative years in Egypt, a time which saw his anti-Western
thought grow and his intellectual prowess and writing flourish, as
Egyptian nationalism went into full throttle and the spectre of the
Second World War began to rear its head. Join our FB Discussion
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