Autobiography, politics and ideology in Sayyid Qutb's reading of the Qur'an

The Egyptian Islamist ideologue Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) is a founding figure of modern Sunni militancy. The West knows Sayyid Qutb through the prism of his Milestones, the 1964 manifesto urging a Qur'anic revolution against illegitimate Muslim regimes. However, it was Qutb's commanding Qur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Umej Bhatia
Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Format: Working Paper
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79507
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4483