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Sayyid Qutb (9 October October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). There are 83 days remaining.

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) was an important theoretician of the Egyptian

جمهوريّة مصرالعربيّة
Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah
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Official language Arabic
Capital Cairo
Largest City Cairo
President Hosni Mubarak
Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif
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 Muslim Brotherhood The Muslim Brotherhood, also called Muslim Brethren (Arabic: جمعية الأخوان المسلمون jamiat al-Ikhwan al-muslimun, literally Society of Muslim Brothers) is an Islamic organization with a political approach to Islam. It was founded in 1928 by Hassan al Banna in Egypt after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
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He first received a religious and then a modernist education before starting his career in the Ministry of Public Instruction. He spent from 1948 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).

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 in United States

United States of America
(U.S. Flag) (U.S. Great Seal)
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(1776 - ): E Pluribus Unum
(Latin: "Out of many, one")
(1956 - ): In God We Trust

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 on a scholarship to study the educational system, receiving a master's degree A master's degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. In the UK it is sometimes awarded for an undergraduate course whose final year consists of higher-level courses and a major research project.

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The Master of Arts (Magister Artium) and Master of Science (Magister Scientiæ) degrees are the basic type in most subjects and may be entirely course-based, entirely research-based or a mixture. The Master's degree is intermediate between a bachelor's degree and a doctorate. In some fields, one customarily earns a masters before a doctorate; in others, work on a doctorate begins immediately after a bachelor's degree.
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 from the Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado University of Northern Colorado is a baccalaureate (arts, sciences, humanities, business, human sciences, and education), graduate (primarily in the field of education), and research university located in Greeley, Colorado. It has a 2003 enrollment of over 11,000 students.

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The University of Northern Colorado opened on October 6, 1890, as the State Normal School to train qualified teachers for the state's public schools. Greeley's citizens raised the necessary money for the first building. At that time, certificates were granted upon the completion of a two year course. In 1911 the school's name was changed to
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What he saw in the USA, its morals, and especially the free conduct of its women, is believed by some to have been the basis for his commentary of the Qur'an

The Qur'an (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam.

Muslims believe that the Qur'an is the literal word of God and culmination of God's revelation to mankind, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over a period of
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 Fi zilal al-Qur'an, which he wrote while imprisoned in Egypt. Resigning from the civil service he became perhaps the most persuasive publicist of the Muslim Brotherhood The Muslim Brotherhood, also called Muslim Brethren (Arabic: جمعية الأخوان المسلمون jamiat al-Ikhwan al-muslimun, literally Society of Muslim Brothers) is an Islamic organization with a political approach to Islam. It was founded in 1928 by Hassan al Banna in Egypt after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
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. The school of thought he inspired has become known as Qutbism Qutbism is an Islamic ideology created by Sayyed Qutb. The term Qutbee is sometimes used a name for followers of these ideals, but the term is often used as a negative label used by Wahhabis who disagree with the Muslim Brotherhood. "Qutbees" do usually not refer to themselves using this name.

The Tenets of Qutbism

The main tenet of Qutbist ideology is the belief that almost all of Islam is heading into the state of pre-Islamic Arabs or Jahiliyya, and must be reconquered.
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His commentary on the Quran has been extremely influential; some see him as the central theorist of twentieth-century Islamism Islamism is a political orientation based on a specific conservative religious view of Muslim fundamentalism. It is one that holds Islam as being not only a religion, but a system that also governs the politicial, economic and social imperatives of the state.

The goal of Islamism is to re-shape the state by implementing its conservative formulation of Islamic law. However, most Islamist
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. According to Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, "In a century in which some of the most important writing came out of prisons, Qutb, for better or for worse, is the Islamic world's answer to Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын) (born December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. He was responsible for thrusting awareness of the Soviet forced labor system on the non-Soviet world.
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, Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905–April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic.

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Sartre was born in Paris to parents Jean-Baptiste Sartre, a naval officer, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer, cousin of Albert Schweitzer. He was 15 months old when his father died of a fever and Anne-Marie raised him with help of her father, Charles Schweitzer, who taught Sartre mathematics and introduced him to classical literature at an early age.
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, and Havel Václav Havel (born October 5, 1936) is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic.

Havel was born in Prague. Following the Moscow-backed coup of 1948 he and his family were shunned for having been wealthy capitalists and pro-german collaborateurs (collaborants according to the Communist party daily Rudé Právo from 23.2.1989) and he had difficulties studying beyond the basic level, but took evening classes and studied briefly at the Czech Technical University (1957). After military service (1957-59) he worked as a stagehand in Prague and studied drama by correspondence. His first publicly performed play was The Garden Party (1963). In 1964 he married Olga Splichalova.
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, and he easily ranks with all of them in influence. It was Sayyid Qutb who fused together the core elements of modern Islamism.... Qutb concluded that the unity of God and His sovereignty meant that human rule – government legislates its own behavior – is illegitimate. Muslims must answer to God alone." [Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America (New York: Random House, 2002) p. 62] ISBN 0812969847

Of many aspects of Islam to which Qutb gave renewed emphasis, perhaps the most significant was the concept of Jahiliyyah The state of ignorance of the guidance from God.

"When a person embraced Islam during the time of the Prophet-peace be on him-he would immediately cut himself off from Jahiliyyah. [The state of ignorance of the guidance from God.] When he stepped into the circle of Islam, he would start a new life, separating himself completely from his past life under ignorance of the Divine Law. He would look
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, the state of ignorance one dwells in in the absence of Islam. Qutb wrote movingly of what he perceived as a contagion of Jahiliyyah flowing from corrupt Western liberal societies.

Before his death, many Arab states, including Saudi Arabia The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, with the Persian Gulf to its north-east and the Red Sea to its west.

المملكة العربيّة السّعوديّة
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 and Iraq The Republic of Iraq is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia encompassing the ancient region of Mesopotamia. It shares borders with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to the south, Turkey to the north, Syria to the north-west, Jordan to the west and Iran to the east. Its current leadership was put in place June 28, 2004, following a March 2003 invasion, led by US and UK forces, that drove Saddam Hussein from power. |
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, offered refuge to Qutb and other Muslim Brothers. Sayyid refused to leave his native land, and was later executed. Qutb's brother, Muhammad Qutb, fled to Saudi Arabia where he became a Professor A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university.

Overview

Professors give lectures and seminars in their field of study, such as science or literature. They also do advanced research in their fields and are supposed to do community service (including advisory functions, such as for the government) and train young academics who should replace them. The balance of these four classic fields of professorial tasks depends heavily on the institution, place (country), and time. For example, professors at research universities in the U.S. (and all European universities) are exclusively promoted on the basis of their research achievements.
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 of Islamic Studies Islamic Studies is the academic discipline which focuses on Islamic issues.

See also:

  • Akbar S. Ahmed

External links

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  • Online Islamic Education (Toronto Shariah Program)
  • Sunni Path (a fiqh resource especially for the Hanafi and Shafi'i schools of Sunni Islam)
  • DeenPort (Islamic portal with interviews and multimedia)

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. One of Muhammad Qutb's students was Osama bin Laden Usāmah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Lādin (born March 10, 1957 or July 30, 1957) (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عود بن لادن), commonly known as Osama bin Laden (أسامة بن لادن), is the head of al-Qaida, a militant Islamist organization that has been involved in terrorist attacks against civilians and military targets around the world.
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Works:

  • Mahammat ash-Sha'ir fi-l-hayat wa-shi'r al-jil al-hadir, 1933
  • ash-Shati al-majhul, 1935
  • al-Taswir al-Fanni fi-l-Qu'ran, 1944/45
  • Tifl min al-qarya (autobiographical work), 1946
  • Al-Adala al-Ijtima'iyya fi-l-Islam (Social Justice in Islam), 1949
  • Fi zilal al-Qur'an (In the Shade of the Qur'an), 1954, commentary of the Qur'an in 30 volumes
  • Ma'alim fi'l Tariq, 1965, Qutb's best known work

See also

  • Egyptian Islamic Jihad The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), also called the Islamic Jihad and the Jihad Group, is an Egyptian Islamic group active since the late 1970s with origins in the Muslim Brotherhood. It suffered setbacks as a result of numerous arrests of operatives worldwide, most recently in Lebanon and Yemen. The organization's primary goals are to overthrow the Egyptian Government and replace it with an Islamic state and to attack United States and Israeli interests in Egypt and abroad.
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  • Mujahedeen Mujahideen (مجاهدين; also transliterated as mujāhidīn, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin, mujaheddin, etc.) is a plural form of mujahid (مجاهد), which literally translates from Arabic as "struggler", someone who engages in jihad, or "struggle", but is often translated as "holy warrior". In the late twentieth century, the term "mujahideen" became popular in the media to describe various armed fighters who subscribe to Islamic ideologies, although there is not always an explicit "holy" or "warrior" meaning within the word.
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  • Mujahideen Mujahideen (مجاهدين; also transliterated as mujāhidīn, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin, mujaheddin, etc.) is a plural form of mujahid (مجاهد), which literally translates from Arabic as "struggler", someone who engages in jihad, or "struggle", but is often translated as "holy warrior". In the late twentieth century, the term "mujahideen" became popular in the media to describe various armed fighters who subscribe to Islamic ideologies, although there is not always an explicit "holy" or "warrior" meaning within the word.
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  • Hasan al-Banna Hassan al Banna (October 14 1906 - February 12, 1949) was an Egyptian Islamist best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood.

    He was born to a father who was a graduate of the al-Azhar Theological Seminary, a top Muslim seminary.

    He was admitted into Cairo University at the age of 16, because of his wealth in islamic knowledge. Banna memorized the entire Qur'an at a young age.

    He wrote the book Letter to a Muslim Student describing the fundamentals of the new Muslim Brotherhood, known in Arabic as al-Ikhwan.
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  • Yusuf al-Qaradawi

    Yusuf al-Qaradawi(Arabic:يوسف القرضاوي) (born September 9, 1926) is a modern Muslim scholar known for his facilitative opinions.

    Qaradawi was born in Egypt, and attended the Al-Azhar Theological Seminary before moving to Qatar. His father died when he was 2, and so he was taken care of by his uncle. His parents urged him to either run a grocery store or to become a carpenter. Instead he memorized the entire Qur'an by age ten. Qaradawi followed Hasan al-Banna during his youth and was imprisoned first under the monarchy in 1949, then three times after the
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  • Islamism Islamism is a political orientation based on a specific conservative religious view of Muslim fundamentalism. It is one that holds Islam as being not only a religion, but a system that also governs the politicial, economic and social imperatives of the state.

    The goal of Islamism is to re-shape the state by implementing its conservative formulation of Islamic law. However, most Islamist
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