Download e-book for kindle: From Secularism to Jihad: Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of by Adnan Musallam

The smooth political inspiration of jihad―a violent fight opposed to corrupt or anti-Islamic regimes―is primarily the brainchild of 1 guy who became conventional Islamic precepts inside of out and created the fashionable radical political Islamist stream. utilizing the evolution of Sayyid Qutb's existence and writings, Musallam strains and analyzes Qutb's alienation and next emergence as an autonomous Islamist in the context of his society and the issues that it confronted. Radicalized following his remain within the usa within the past due Nineteen Forties and through his imprisonment from 1954 to 1964, Qutb could pen debatable writings that may have an important influence on younger Islamists in Egypt for many years following his dying and on worldwide jihadist Islamists for the prior area century. when you consider that September eleven, 2001, the West has dubbed Qutb the thinker of Islamic terror and godfather ideologue of al-Qaeda. this is often the 1st publication to check his lifestyles and suggestion within the wake of the occasions that ignited the struggle on Terrorism.

A secular guy of letters within the Nineteen Thirties and Nineteen Forties, Qutb's outlook and concentrate on Quranic reviews underwent drastic alterations in the course of international warfare II. The Quran grew to become a shelter for his own wishes and for solutions to the ills of his society. consequently, he forsook literature completely for the Islamic reason and lifestyle. His remain within the usa from 1948 to 1950 strengthened his deeply held trust that Islam is man's basically salvation from the abyss of Godless materialism he believed to be happen in either capitalism and communism. Qutb's lively competition to the secular guidelines of Egyptian President Nasser resulted in his imprisonment from 1954 to 1964, within which his writings known as for the overthrow of Jahili (pagan) governments and their substitute with a real and simply Islamic society. A later arrest and trial led to his execution in August 1966.