1906 - 1966
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb ( or ; Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈsæjjed ˈʔotˤb], Arabic: [ˈsæjjɪd ˈqʊtˤb]; Arabic: سيد قطب إبراهيم حسين Sayyid Quṭb; 9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966), known popularly as Sayyid Qutb, was an Egyptian author, educator, revolutionary, Islamic theorist, 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. Author of 24 books, with around 30 books unpublished for different reasons (mainly destruction by the state), and at least 581 articles, including novels, literary arts critique and works on education, he is best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 1,109,344 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Sayyid Qutb is the 452nd most popular writer (down from 440th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Egypt (up from 83rd in 2019) and the 7th 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 452 out of 5,794. Before him are Enid Blyton, Comte de Lautréamont, Johannes V. Jensen, William S. Burroughs, Pierre de Marivaux, and Henri Barbusse. After him are Lysias, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Louisa May Alcott, Herta Müller, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Harold Pinter.
1897 - 1968
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 446
1846 - 1870
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 447
1873 - 1950
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 448
1914 - 1997
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 449
1688 - 1763
HPI: 74.86
Rank: 450
1873 - 1935
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 451
1906 - 1966
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 452
445 BC - 380 BC
HPI: 74.82
Rank: 453
1883 - 1945
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 454
1832 - 1888
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 455
1953 - Present
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 456
1848 - 1907
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 457
1930 - 2008
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 458
Among people born in 1906, Sayyid Qutb ranks 33. Before him are Alexey Stakhanov, Hermann Fegelein, Ernst Ruska, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Léon Degrelle, and Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Wassily Leontief, Josef Kramer, Hassan al-Banna, Albert Sabin, Oleg Antonov, and Vladimir Prelog. Among people deceased in 1966, Sayyid Qutb ranks 15. Before him are Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, Montgomery Clift, Giuseppe Farina, Peter Debye, and Ken Miles. After him are Felix Steiner, Dietrich von Choltitz, Cemal Gürsel, George de Hevesy, Frits Zernike, and Célestin Freinet.
1906 - 1977
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 27
1906 - 1945
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 28
1906 - 1988
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 29
1906 - 2001
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 30
1906 - 1994
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 31
1906 - 1989
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 32
1906 - 1966
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 33
1906 - 1999
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 34
1906 - 1945
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 35
1906 - 1949
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 36
1906 - 1993
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 37
1906 - 1984
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 38
1906 - 1998
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 39
1892 - 1966
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 9
1885 - 1966
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 10
1920 - 1966
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 11
1906 - 1966
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 12
1884 - 1966
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 13
1918 - 1966
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 14
1906 - 1966
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 15
1896 - 1966
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 16
1894 - 1966
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 17
1895 - 1966
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 18
1885 - 1966
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 19
1888 - 1966
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 20
1896 - 1966
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 21
Among people born in Egypt, Sayyid Qutb ranks 82 out of 520. Before him are Den (-3000), Muhammad Abduh (1849), Lactantius (250), Saint Sarah (100), Ctesibius (-284), and Ptolemy VI Philometor (-184). After him are Teti (-2350), Mohamed Al-Fayed (1929), Pappus of Alexandria (290), Seti II (-1300), Saint Maurice (250), and Athenaeus (200).
3000 BC - 2995 BC
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 76
1849 - 1905
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 77
250 - 325
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 78
100 - 100
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 79
284 BC - 221 BC
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 80
184 BC - 145 BC
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 81
1906 - 1966
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 82
2350 BC - 2350 BC
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 83
1929 - Present
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 84
290 - 350
HPI: 74.78
Rank: 85
1300 BC - 1194 BC
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 86
250 - 287
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 87
200 - 223
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 88
Among writers born in Egypt, Sayyid Qutb ranks 7. Before him are Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Appian (95), Constantine P. Cavafy (1863), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), and Lactantius (250). After him are Athenaeus (200), Claudian (370), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Nonnus (500), Taha Hussein (1889), and Dionysius Thrax (-170).
1911 - 2006
HPI: 79.79
Rank: 1
95 - 165
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 2
1863 - 1933
HPI: 76.43
Rank: 3
1876 - 1944
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 4
295 BC - 215 BC
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 5
250 - 325
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 6
1906 - 1966
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 7
200 - 223
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 8
370 - 404
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 9
190 - 264
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 10
500 - 500
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 11
1889 - 1973
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 12
170 BC - 89 BC
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 13