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Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an successful Egyptian ideologue who determined a fanciful basement for radical Islamism in a postcolonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pristine bargain of a leader's life and work, a renouned media has conflated Qutb's dignified purpose with a aims of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. He is mostly portrayed as a terrorist, Islamo-Fascist, and disciple of murder. An consultant on amicable criticism and domestic resistance, John Calvert rescues Qutb from falsification and follows a expansion of his suspicion within a context of his time.
Calvert recounts Qutb's life from a tiny encampment in that he was lifted to his execution during a insistence of Abd al-Nasser's regime. His investigate stays supportive to a cultural, political, social, and mercantile resources that made Qutb's thought, including vital developments that stoical one of a many eventful durations in Egyptian history. These years witnessed a full flush of Britain's tutelary regime, a appearance of Egyptian nationalism, and a domestic omnipotence of a Free Officers. Qutb burnished shoulders with Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Abd al-Nasser himself, yet his Islamism creatively had tiny to do with religion. Only in response to his harrowing knowledge in jail did Qutb come to courtesy Islam and kufr (infidelity) as oppositional, antithetical, and therefore jointly exclusive. Calvert shows how Qutb repackaged and reformulated a Islamic birthright to plea authority, including those who claimed (falsely, Qutb believed) to be Muslim.
(7/15/2010)
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #411877 in Books
- Published on: 2010-08-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.10" h x 5.50" w x 8.50" l, 1.35 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
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This abounding and delicately researched autobiography sets Qutb for a initial time in his Egyptian context, rescuing him from mimic though whitewashing his radicalism. It is no tiny achievement.
(The Economist )[A] extensive overview of Qutb's life and writings.
(Joshua Sinai Washington Times )Fascinating sum emerge in this book.... Anyone meddlesome in a expansion ofIslamism in a 20th century should review it.
(Marc Lynch The Atlantic )The initial truly extensive biography.
(Samuel Helfront Jewish Review of Books )Review
Given that Sayyid Qutb is taught on a vast (and increasing) series of campuses, and given that he has already been introduced to a open in best-selling books, such as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, a really announcement of a Qutb autobiography should attract substantial interest. This book not usually constitutes what is expected to sojourn a figure's decisive autobiography though also offers essential new insights on a post-1954 story of a Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. We are traffic with a singular book that is expected to turn a classical in a margin of domestic Islam. Outstanding.
(Thomas Hegghammer, associate, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School 12/15/10)About a Author
John Calvert is associate highbrow of story during Creighton University, Nebraska. He is a author of Islamism: A Documentary and Reference Guide and coeditor and translator of Sayyid Qutb's A Child from a Village. His investigate focuses on amicable criticism and domestic insurgency movements in a complicated Middle East, as good as Egyptian nationalism and a ideological origins of al-Qaeda.
(8/26/10)
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By Peter Ford
I found this to be a well-researched, well-written, sensitive yet offset biography. we appreciated a (remarkably voluminous) minute notes, references and authorities during a finish of a book. It has been ominous and useful to me in bargain a growth of ideas and attitudes that underlie a bullheaded problems acted for a West by Radical Islamism. we enjoyed reading it and suggest it highly. It's also a sensitive introduction in critical contention groups.
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By William Garrison Jr.
"Sayyid Qutb and a Origins of Radical Islamism" by John Calvert. (From another's examination in a Spring 2011 "Middle East Journal"). "Undoubtedly, a Egyptian radical Sayyid Qutb (1906-66) has been one of a many successful thinkers in a story of Islamism. It is therefore startling that notwithstanding a magnitude and volume of references done to him, this is a initial extensive autobiography of him in English. ... Calvert's investigate is as many a domestic story of complicated Egypt by a prism of Sayyid Qutb as it is a autobiography of a male and a investigate of his thought..... Qutb's radical accent of Islamist beliefs during his final years customarily receives a many attention, yet Calvert places such meditative within a wider context of Qutb's life as a whole and sum how it developed to this final incarnation. Qutb laid a foundations for Islamism's many impassioned manifestations following his execution. Still, Calvert is clever to observe that Qutb himself would have been frightened by a Islamist proscription of self-proclaimed Muslims and a ensuing vulgar massacre and insusceptibility to noncombatant standing witnessed today. True, Qutb popularized a defamation of Muslims in a enlightenment and civilization around him as vital in a state of "ignorance" or "barbarism" allied to a pre-Islamic era. However, he never characterized them as "infidels" as his successors did. Likewise, yet he was clearly a dissident who permitted insubordinate violence, his radicalism was not low yet was a position he embraced gradually following years of systematic abuse. Civil servant, literary critic, insubordinate icon, Qur'anic commentator, persecuted dissenter, feted martyr: Calvert's autobiography captures a many faces of Qutb...."
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"Sayyid Qutb and a Origins of Radical Islamism" is on a ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge egghead nonfiction. Professor Calvert's book talk ran here as a cover underline on Sep 27, 2010.
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