1906 - 1966
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Qutb ( or ; Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈsæjjed ˈʔotˤb]; Arabic: سيد قطب إبراهيم حسين, romanized: Sayyid 'Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn Quṭb; 9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic scholar, theorist, 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ideological roots of global jihadist organisations such as al-Qaeda and ISIL.Author of 24 books, with around 30 books unpublished for different reasons (mainly destruction by the state), and at least 581 articles, including novels, literary arts critique and works on education, he is best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 1,699,163 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Sayyid Qutb is the 341st 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.
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Among writers, Sayyid Qutb ranks 341 out of 5,755. Before him are Louise Glück, Gerhart Hauptmann, Gao Xingjian, Napoleon Hill, Philip Roth, and Czesław Miłosz. After him are Appian, Friedrich Schlegel, O. Henry, Jorge Amado, Wilhelm Grimm, and Johannes V. Jensen.
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 335
1862 - 1946
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 336
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 337
1883 - 1970
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 338
1933 - 2018
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 339
1911 - 2004
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 340
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 341
95 - 165
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 342
1772 - 1829
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 343
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 344
1912 - 2001
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 345
1786 - 1859
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 346
1873 - 1950
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 347
Among people born in 1906, Sayyid Qutb ranks 21. Before him are Albert Hofmann, Victor Vasarely, Sergei Korolev, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Emmanuel Levinas. After him are Ernst Ruska, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Henri Charrière, Hermann Fegelein, and Giuseppe Farina. Among people deceased in 1966, Sayyid Qutb ranks 12. Before him are Buster Keaton, Ken Miles, Sergei Korolev, Peter Debye, Jean Arp, and Sepp Dietrich. After him are Giuseppe Farina, Chester W. Nimitz, Montgomery Clift, Dietrich von Choltitz, Felix Steiner, and Cemal Gürsel.
1906 - 2008
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 15
1906 - 1997
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 16
1906 - 1966
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 17
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 18
1906 - 1975
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 19
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 20
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 21
1906 - 1988
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 22
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 23
1906 - 1947
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 24
1906 - 1973
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 25
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 26
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 27
1895 - 1966
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 6
1918 - 1966
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 7
1906 - 1966
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 8
1884 - 1966
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 9
1886 - 1966
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 10
1892 - 1966
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 11
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 12
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 13
1885 - 1966
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 14
1920 - 1966
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 15
1894 - 1966
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 16
1896 - 1966
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 17
1895 - 1966
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 18
Among people born in Egypt, Sayyid Qutb ranks 68 out of 582. Before him are Cleopatra Selene II (-40), Saint Apollonia (110), Meritaten (-1400), Muhammad Abduh (1849), Sextus Empiricus (160), and Shoshenq I (-1000). After him are Appian (95), Paul of Thebes (227), Saint Maurice (250), Eric Hobsbawm (1917), Pachomius the Great (292), and Apollonius of Rhodes (-295).
40 BC - 5
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 62
110 - 249
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 63
1400 BC - 1400 BC
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 64
1849 - 1905
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 65
160 - 210
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 66
1000 BC - 924 BC
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 67
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 68
95 - 165
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 69
227 - 342
HPI: 68.41
Rank: 70
250 - 287
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 71
1917 - 2012
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 72
292 - 348
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 73
295 BC - 215 BC
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 74
Among writers born in Egypt, Sayyid Qutb ranks 3. Before him are Naguib Mahfouz (1911) and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876). After him are Appian (95), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), Lactantius (250), Constantine P. Cavafy (1863), Athenaeus (200), Claudian (370), Nonnus (500), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), and Taha Hussein (1889).
1911 - 2006
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 1
1876 - 1944
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 2
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 3
95 - 165
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 4
295 BC - 215 BC
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 5
250 - 325
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 6
1863 - 1933
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 7
200 - 223
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 8
370 - 404
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 9
500 - 500
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 10
190 - 264
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 11
1889 - 1973
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 12