Sayyid Qutb
Subtitle: the life and legacy of a radical Islamic intellectual
By: James Toth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780199790883
Subjects: Muslim scholars; Biography
Description: 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 descriptions of him as the evil genius lurking behind today's terrorists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Qutb's early and modern years; title: Qutb's transition, from secularism to Islamism; title: Qutb's moderate Islamism; title: Qutb's radical Islamism; title: Sayyid Qutb's Islamic concept; title: Islamism as a revitalization movement; title: Islamic society and Islamic system; title: The Islamic economy; title: The Islamic state; title: Islamic history; title: Epilogue; title: Appendices: Dramatis personae; title: Sayyid Qutb on women and the family; title: Sayyid Qutb on "People of the Book," dhimmis; title: Sayyid Qutb on apologetics.