Good find, too long to read now. Bookmarked for later but I did get this far "Qutb was among the first champions of Naguib Mahfouz, a young, modern novelist who, in 1988, would win the Nobel Prize in Literature."
I must say that my mom (the staunchest of republicans) read some of Mahfouz's stuff and loved it.
I've lived in Colorado most of my life. Maybe we are barbarians since most of us are decended from Vikings. So they better watch their worthless butt's because my ancestors used to use their fallen enemies to cook their meals with. Just for the fun of it.