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Sayyid Qutb (Arabic: سيد قطب‎) (9 October 1906 – 29 August1966) was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 60s. In 1966, he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging.

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• Islam prescribes the bases of social justice. It insures that the poor have claims on the possessions of the rich, and it lays down a just policy for government and finance. It does not need to numb people's feelings and does not call on people to abandon their rights on earth and to expect them only in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Activism: A Translation and Critical Analysis of Social Justice in Islam (1996), p. 16

• The defeatists should fear Allah lest they distort this religion and cause it to become weak on the basis of the claim that it is a religion of peace. Yes, it is the religion of peace but in the sense of saving all of mankind from worshiping anything other than Allah and submitting all of mankind to the rule of Allah.
  • Fiqh al-Da'wah, pp 217-222 [1]

Social Justice in Islam (1953)

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al-'Adalat al-Ijtima' 'iyyah fi 'l-Islam, as translated by John B. Hardie

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Sayyid Qutb

Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary (1906–1966)

Sayyid Qutb
Qutb on trial in 1966[Note 1]
Born	Sayyid Qutb Ibrahim Husayn al-Shadhili (1906-10-09)9 October 1906 Musha, Asyut Governorate, Khedivate of Egypt
Died	29 August 1966(1966-08-29) (aged 59) Cairo, United Arab Republic
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Education
Relatives
Main interest(s)	Islam, politics, Quranic exegesis (tafsir)
Notable idea(s)	Jahiliyyah, Ubudiyya
Notable work(s)
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Influenced by ‘Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Taymiyyah, Rashid Rida, Hassan al-Banna, Alexis Carrel, Abbās al-Aqqād, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi,[1]Muhammad 'Abduh,[2]Oswald Spengler, Arnold J. Toynbee[3]
Influenced Abdullah Azzam, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Anwar al-Awlaki, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mahmoud Ezzat, Mohammed Badie, Muhammad abd-al-Salam Faraj, Muhammad Qutb, Osama bin Laden, Shukri Mustafa, Ruhollah Khomeini, Ali Khamenei, Abu Ali al-Anbari

Sayyid Qutb Ibrahim Husayn al-Shadhili^[a] (9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary. A pan-I