PoliticalChic
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Perhaps Islamofascism and Marxism appear unrelated......bookends of revolution.....but in the life of this largely unknown, but deeply significant patron of the Islamist movement, there is the nexus.
1. "Sayyid Quṭb
Sayyid Quṭb, in full Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn Shādhilī Sayyid Quṭb, (born Oct. 9, 1906, near Asyūṭ, Egypt—died Aug. 29, 1966, Cairo), Egyptian writer who was one of the foremost figures in modern Sunni Islamic revivalism. He was from a family of impoverished rural notables. For most of his early life he was a schoolteacher. Originally an ardent secularist, he came, over time, to adopt many Islamist views."
Britannica.com
2. Sayyid Qutb, the single most influential Islamist writer. His masterwork, “In the Shade of the Qur’an,” commentaries on the various suras: Most of the original 30 volumes (114 Surahs) were written (or re-written) while in prison following an attempted assassination of Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954.
3. The notion of Islam as totality was Qutb’s most important concept, distinguishing Islam from all other worldviews- ‘Tawhid,’ the oneness of God. (Of course, Marxists had the same belief: George Lukacs defined that characteristic of Marxism that distinguished it from bourgeois thinking: ‘the primacy of the category of totality.’)
4. The suggestion of martyrdom can be found in one of his screeds against the Jews. “The Koran points to another contemptible characteristic of the Jews: their craven desire to live, no matter at what price and regardless of quality, honour, and dignity.” Imam Zaid Shakir’s Powerful Rebuttal Against Muslim Extremists
5. In the early ‘50’s, Qutb had abandoned his original, traditional idea that jihad was a defensive struggle, in favor of a more radical and aggressive notion that jihad was a struggle for all mankind. Al Qaeda picked up on this and launched a global struggle. Fitting, as Qutb had spoken against the narrow notion of Arab nationalism, and for a broader notion of Islam. Moreover, Qutb had declared that all but a few Muslims were jahili barbarians, making it open season on the main Muslim powers.
Bin Laden framed his political demands in Qutb’s theological framework: peace in Palestine (the end of the Zionist state), infidel troops out of the land of Muhammad (Americans out of Saudi Arabia), the end of suffering for the Iraqi people (end foreign pressure on Saddam).
1. "Sayyid Quṭb
Sayyid Quṭb, in full Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn Shādhilī Sayyid Quṭb, (born Oct. 9, 1906, near Asyūṭ, Egypt—died Aug. 29, 1966, Cairo), Egyptian writer who was one of the foremost figures in modern Sunni Islamic revivalism. He was from a family of impoverished rural notables. For most of his early life he was a schoolteacher. Originally an ardent secularist, he came, over time, to adopt many Islamist views."
Britannica.com
2. Sayyid Qutb, the single most influential Islamist writer. His masterwork, “In the Shade of the Qur’an,” commentaries on the various suras: Most of the original 30 volumes (114 Surahs) were written (or re-written) while in prison following an attempted assassination of Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954.
Fi Zilal al-Quran - Wikipedia
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3. The notion of Islam as totality was Qutb’s most important concept, distinguishing Islam from all other worldviews- ‘Tawhid,’ the oneness of God. (Of course, Marxists had the same belief: George Lukacs defined that characteristic of Marxism that distinguished it from bourgeois thinking: ‘the primacy of the category of totality.’)
4. The suggestion of martyrdom can be found in one of his screeds against the Jews. “The Koran points to another contemptible characteristic of the Jews: their craven desire to live, no matter at what price and regardless of quality, honour, and dignity.” Imam Zaid Shakir’s Powerful Rebuttal Against Muslim Extremists
5. In the early ‘50’s, Qutb had abandoned his original, traditional idea that jihad was a defensive struggle, in favor of a more radical and aggressive notion that jihad was a struggle for all mankind. Al Qaeda picked up on this and launched a global struggle. Fitting, as Qutb had spoken against the narrow notion of Arab nationalism, and for a broader notion of Islam. Moreover, Qutb had declared that all but a few Muslims were jahili barbarians, making it open season on the main Muslim powers.
Bin Laden framed his political demands in Qutb’s theological framework: peace in Palestine (the end of the Zionist state), infidel troops out of the land of Muhammad (Americans out of Saudi Arabia), the end of suffering for the Iraqi people (end foreign pressure on Saddam).