Portrait of a revolutionary
Locked up in an Egyptian prison in the early 1960s, Sayyid Qutb wrote a book that has inspired succeeding generations of radical Islamists.
Locked up in an Egyptian prison in the early 1960s, Sayyid Qutb wrote a book that has inspired succeeding generations of radical Islamists.
THE NAME Sayyid Qutb carries layered echoes. For some, it is spoken with reverence; for others, with suspicion. Rarely, however, is he read as a man who...
Understanding the world's largest Islamist organization, what it believes, and the threat that it poses to the West.
I desire in this piece to dedicate some time to briefly addressing the multitude of egregious accusations levied against Ustadh Sayyid.
A new book aims to defend Sayyed Qutb, but the rapid collapse of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood government is yet another demonstration that his philosophies are...
Al-Ahram, Egypt, August 22. Carefully and consciously consider each word of the following statements: “The Brotherhood wants to impose...
A new biography reveals how the slain al-Qaeda leader created an ideology and infrastructure that outlived him. Ayman al-Zawahiri in a 2006...
The picture of Qutb was not just misread—it was fundamentally in conflict with the very message that the protest was attempting to convey: that...
Saleh Abdel Haq sent a letter of support to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on June 18, pledging “full support for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement dedicated to the remaking of society and government according to the dictates of Islamic law, or...
Prominent Egyptian Islamist thinker and leading ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood (1906–1966) author of influential works on Islamist ideology.