MakeHeadline.com:Today is the 43th aniversary of executon of Sayyid Qutb, Egytian intellectual and writer. Remembering Sayyid Qutb….
Qutb, an Egyptian author, educator, Islamist, poet, became an intelectual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood following the death of Hassan al-Banna in the 1950s and ’60s.
Qutb is easily one of the major architects and “strategists” of contemporary Islamic revival. Along with Maulana Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the revivalist movement in South Asia, and Imam Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s Islamic revolution, he gave shape to the ideas and the worldview that has mobilized and motivated millions of Muslims from Malaysia to Michigan to strive to reintroduce Islamic practices in their lives and alter social and political institutions so that they reflect Islamic principles.
The first excerpt comes from an early work, Social Justice in Islam, which he wrote in 1949. (Social Justice in Islam.
Qutb spent the better half of 1949 in Greeley, Colo., studying curriculum at Colorado State Teachers College, now the University of Northern Colorado. What he saw prompted him to condemn America as a soulless, materialistic place that no Muslim should aspire to live in.
Author of 24 books, including novels, literary arts’ critique, 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-l-Tariq (Milestones).
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