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After a year of delays, this book was finally published a few weeks ago, and I got my copy today. I highly recommend it to anyone studying the Islamist jihad on Western civilization.

Here is the Amazon page:
The Sayyid Qutb Reader (paperback)

Here are two FR threads which provide more background as to who Sayyid Qutb is.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/876168/posts
Islamic Revivalist : Sayyid Qutb and His Influence on Modern Islamic Fundamentalism
by Pyro7480

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710411/posts
Sayyid Qutb's "Milestones"
by Elmer Swenson

1 posted on 09/11/2008 7:06:39 PM PDT by Dajjal
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To: Pyro7480; narses; NYer; Salvation; AdmSmith; Aquinasfan; Siobhan; Maeve; XR7; SJackson; ...
jihad ping

Pyro: I put a link to your essay on Qutb.

2 posted on 09/11/2008 7:08:32 PM PDT by Dajjal (Visit Ann Coulter's getdrunkandvote4mccain.com)
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Blurbs from the back cover:

"The influence of Sayyid Qutb on contemporary Islamic radicalism has been far-reaching. This timely reader makes the main currents of Qutb's thought available in one volume to the English-speaking reader, a service that should facilitate the study of a figure who, in the West, has been more widely cited than read."
--Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School

"There has been need for a summary volume of Sayyid Qutb's basic writings for some time because of his foundational position within Muslim radicalism. Although many of Qutb's writings have been translated into English, the translations have often been problematic or in substandard English. Bergesen brings together the essential Qutb for the interested reader, and most especially classroom use, and presents it in a coherent and thematic manner. Because Qutb's writings are so voluminous and for the most part repetitive, Bergesen has done a much-needed selection that can give outsiders a sense of the importance and influence of Qutb's thinking without having to read them all. The Sayyid Qutb Reader is a very nicely achieved balance between a summary of Qutb's thought (from a scholarly viewpoint) and the words of the author himself, finally in readable English."
--David Cook, Rice University, Houston

4 posted on 09/11/2008 9:17:34 PM PDT by Dajjal (Visit Ann Coulter's getdrunkandvote4mccain.com)
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To: Dajjal

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Off Topic.

Blog:

http://www.makingsenseofjihad.com/2009/06/muhammed-qutb.html

“Muhammed Qutb”
(June 5, 2009)


6 posted on 06/06/2009 2:13:52 PM PDT by Cindy
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