Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Sayed Qutb (9th October 1906 in Musha - executed on 29th August 1966), important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. He first received a religious and then a modernist education before starting his career in the Ministry of Public Instruction. From 1948 to 1951 he was in America on a scholarship to study the educational system. What he saw in America, its morals, and especially the free conduct of its women, so shocked him that he wrote a book in denunciation of what he took for paganism. Resigning from the civil service he became the most persuasive publicist of the Muslim Brotherhood . 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 zilat al-Qur'an (In the shadow of the Quran), 1954, commentary of the Quran in 30 volumes This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.