Sayyid Qutb

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Sayyid Qutb was an influential Egyptian Islamist ideologue and writer whose works profoundly shaped modern Sunni Islamist and jihadist thought.

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instanceOf Islamist ideologue
person
writer
arrestedBy Egyptian government NERFINISHED
birthName Sayyid Qutb Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath execution
countryOfCitizenship Egypt
countryOfResidence Egypt NERFINISHED
dateOfArrest 1954
dateOfBirth 1906-10-09
dateOfDeath 1966-08-29
educatedAt Dar al-Ulum, Cairo University NERFINISHED
employer Egyptian Ministry of Education NERFINISHED
endTimeOfUSStay 1950
executedBy Egyptian government NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Islamic political thought
Qur'anic exegesis
literary criticism
ideology Qutbism NERFINISHED
imprisonedIn Egyptian prisons NERFINISHED
influenced Ayman al-Zawahiri NERFINISHED
Osama bin Laden NERFINISHED
jihadist ideologues
modern Sunni Islamist movements
influencedBy Abul A'la Maududi NERFINISHED
Ibn Taymiyyah NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
legacy major influence on contemporary Islamist and jihadist thought
mannerOfDeath execution by hanging
memberOf Muslim Brotherhood NERFINISHED
movement Islamism NERFINISHED
Sunni Islamism
name Sayyid Qutb NERFINISHED
notableIdea hakimiyya (sovereignty of God)
modern jahiliyya
vanguard of true believers
notableWork Fi Zilal al-Qur'an NERFINISHED
Milestones NERFINISHED
occupation Islamist theorist
educator
literary critic
writer
placeOfBirth Musha, Asyut Governorate, Egypt NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Cairo, Egypt NERFINISHED
politicalPosition anti-secularism
opposition to Western cultural influence
positionHeld leading ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood
reasonForArrest alleged involvement in plot against Nasser government
religion Sunni Islam
startTimeOfUSStay 1948
traveledTo United States NERFINISHED
underGovernment Gamal Abdel Nasser NERFINISHED
wroteDuringImprisonment Fi Zilal al-Qur'an (later volumes) NERFINISHED
Milestones NERFINISHED

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