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 ...

Sayyid Qutb on trial in Cairo in 1966. Fifty years ago this week, the intellectual godfather of modern Islamic fundamentalism was executed in Egypt. But to truly understand Sayyid Qutb's trajectory to ...

John Calvert, Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 377 pp., $29.50. [amazon 0231701047 full] THE COVER of John Calvert’s book parades the face ...

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 ...

Writing in the WaPo, Terrence McCoy discusses how ISIS’s savagery — e.g., the seven year old Australian boy, taken to the jihad by his father, holding up the severed head of a Syrian soldier (click ...

In 1948, Sayyid Qutb went to America, where he stayed for almost two years. It was a formative experience for the devout, uptight, disgust-prone Egyptian, who is regarded as one of the founding ...

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 ...

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 ...

HYDERABAD: From cracked walls and a collapsed roof to restored arches and rising domes, the Qutb Shahi Mosque in Shaikpet now stands as a testament to collective resolve. Fragile and fading for years, ...

Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi is professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary ...

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 ...