Sayyid Qutb Summary

This book is the book that compiles the writing of Sayyid Qutb. Albert J. Bergesen who is the editor and the writer has chosen and selected the writings of Sayyid Qutb on politics, religion and society. There is a need to summarize the volume of Sayyid Qutb 's basic writings. Although many of Qutb 's writings have been translated into English, the translations always bring problem to the people to understand the English easily. Bergesen brings together the essential Qutb for the interested reader and presents it in a proper manner. Because Qutb 's writings are so voluminous and for the most part repetitive, Bergesen has done a much-needed selection that can give outsiders a sense of the importance and influence of Qutb 's thinking without having to read them all. The Sayyid Qutb Reader is a very nicely achieved balance between a summary of Qutb 's thought (from a scholarly viewpoint) and the words of the author himself. If someone intend to know and understand what militant Muslims think has to understand what they read, they need to read Sayyid Qutb. People

Even though the Nassser’s Egypt was quite sevular and oriented toward modernization and “Arab socialism”, it has proven easy enough for terrorists and rebellions to apply such reasoning even against very different regimes. Sayyid Qutb was the most important influence on the contempoary ideology of political Islam. His experiences and writings are required reading for students of the field and this reader is an excellent source of material. As well as introductory material on Qutb and his ideas, there are writings here taken from important works, such as Milestones, In the Shade of the Qur’an and Social Justice in Islam. Some are subdivided into seperate readings on themes such as revolution, the call to fight, Islamic war ethics and aspects of