Robert Manne is Emeritus Professor and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University. His most recent book is The Mind of the Islamic State. Sayyid Qutb was a distinguished and prolific Egyptian ...

Before Sayyid Qutb became a leading theorist of violent jihad, he was a little-known Egyptian writer sojourning in the United States, where he attended a small teachers college on the Great Plains.

Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism. By John Calvert. Hurst & Co; 256 pages; £25. To be published in America by Columbia University Press in August. Buy from Amazon.co.uk PRE-EMINENTLY ...

I have not read D'Souza's latest, but if reviews are accurate, I am very disappointed in him. Barnett notes that D'Souza discusses Sayyid Qutb and how his disgust with American culture helped lead us ...

1906 — Born in the village of Musha in Assyout Province, Egypt. 1918 — Finished primary education, then dropped out of school because of a revolution of 1919. 1920 — Moved to Cairo, Egypt, to live ...

If you can’t win the game, change the rules. This has been the cornerstone of the political ideology of religious groups from Egypt to Pakistan. It all started from Syed Qutb in Egypt and his mentor ...

In August 29, 1966, Sayed Qutb, the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, was hanged to death, after he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel ...

Islam is not monolithic. There are many different expressions of faith and life within the Muslim umma. However, some voices within the umma are more influential than others. For some young Muslims in ...

HYDERABAD: Badi Baoli, one of the biggest heritage step wells in Hyderabad at the Qutb Shahi tombs campus, was open to public after restoration on Tuesday. IT minister KT Rama Rao, who claimed to have ...

Built in the early 13th century a few kilometres south of Delhi, the red sandstone tower of Qutb Minar is 72.5 m high, tapering from 2.75 m in diameter at its peak to 14.32 m at its base, and ...