page_title: Qutbism
section_title: Tenets
hierarchical_section_title: Qutbism / Tenets
caption_attribution_description: العربية: ألتقطت قبل إعدام سيد قطب في عام 1965م English: Sayyid Qutb
context_page_description: Qutbism is an Islamist ideology developed by Sayyid Qutb, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was executed by the Egyptian government. It has been described as advancing the extremist jihadist ideology of propagating "offensive jihad" – waging jihad in conquest – or "armed jihad in the advance of Islam".
  Qutbism has gained widespread attention because it is widely believed to have influenced Islamic extremists and terrorists such as Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Muslim extremists “cite Sayyid Qutb repeatedly and consider themselves his intellectual descendants.”
context_section_description: The main tenet of Qutbist ideology is that the Muslim community — i.e. the community of those who call themselves Muslims but are not part of Qutb's vanguard fighting to reestablish true Islam — "has been extinct for a few centuries", having reverted to Godless ignorance (Jahiliyya), and must be reconquered for Islam.
  Qutb outlined his ideas in his book Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq (aka Milestones).  Important principles of Qutbism include:
  Adherence to Sharia as sacred law accessible to humans, without which Islam cannot exist
  Adherence to Sharia as a complete way of life that will bring not only justice, but peace, personal serenity, scientific discovery, complete freedom from servitude, and other benefits
  Avoidance of Western and non-Islamic "evil and corruption," including socialism, nationalism and consumerist capitalism
  Vigilance against Western and Jewish conspiracies against Islam
  A two-pronged attack of
  preaching to convert and
  jihad to forcibly eliminate the "structures" of Jahiliyya
  The importance of offensive Jihad to eliminate Jahiliyya not only from the Islamic homeland but from the face of the Earth
caption: Sayyid Qutb
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