Sayyid Qutb

Sayyid Qutb

Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Qutb ( or ; Egyptian Arabic: [ˈsæjjed ˈʔotˤb]; Arabic: سيد قطب إبراهيم حسين, romanized: Sayyid 'Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn Quṭb; 9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar, revolutionary, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging. He is considered as "the Father of Salafi jihadism", the religio-political doctrine that underpins the ideological roots of global jihadist organisations such as al-Qaeda and ISIL. Author of 24 books, with around 30 books unpublished for different reasons (mainly destruction by the state), and at least 581 articles, including novels, literary arts critique and works on education, he is best known in the Muslim world for his work on what he believed to be the social and political role of Islam, particularly in his books Social Justice and Ma'alim fi al-Tariq (Milestones). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sayyid Qutb has received more than 1,873,802 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Sayyid Qutb is the 339th most popular writer (up from 452nd in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 82nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Egyptian Writer.

Sayyid Qutb is most famous for his book In the Shade of the Qur'an.