Sayyid Qutb, Theologian, 1949

Author
Sayyid Qutb
Date
1949
Name of Author
Sayyid Qutb
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
Body

“It is in the very nature of Islam to take initiative for freeing the human beings throughout the earth from servitude to anyone other than God; and so it cannot be restricted within any geographic or racial limits, leaving all mankind on the whole earth in evil, in chaos and in servitude to lords other than God.”David Aaron, In Their Own Words: Voices of Jihad (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2008), 62.

Rhetoric Category
Pro-Pan-Islamism
Threat
Qutbism

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