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Sayyid Qutb : the life and legacy of a radical Islamic intellectual /

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James Toth traces the life and thought of Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian thinker and Islamist martyr branded by The New York Times Magazine as "The Philosopher of Islamic Terror." By returning to Qutb's writings, Toth draws a complex portrait of Qutb, one that moves beyond the cartoonish d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toth, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Quṭb, Sayyid, > 1906-1966.
Quṭb, Sayyid, > 1906-1966
Muslim scholars > Egypt > Biography.
Savants musulmans > Égypte > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > General.
Muslim scholars
Egypt
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Qutb's early and modern years
  • Qutb's transition, from secularism to Islamism
  • Qutb's moderate Islamism
  • Qutb's radical Islamism
  • Sayyid Qutb's Islamic concept
  • Islamism as a revitalization movement
  • Islamic society and Islamic system
  • The Islamic economy
  • The Islamic state
  • Islamic history
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices: Dramatis personae
  • Sayyid Qutb on women and the family
  • Sayyid Qutb on "People of the Book," dhimmis
  • Sayyid Qutb on apologetics.