Open AccessSayyid Qutb on the Qur’an’s Artistic and Activist Dimensions
Author(s) -
Zakyi Ibrahim
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american journal of islam and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2690-3741
pISSN - 2690-3733
DOI - 10.35632/ajis.v29i4.1177
Subject(s) - ideology , reputation , politics , literature , quality (philosophy) , nationalism , aesthetics , philosophy , sociology , art , epistemology , social science , political science , law
Sayyid Qutb’s reputation as one of the finest Muslim writers of all time isbased on the quality of his writings in terms of their eloquence and ideas. Forexample, his F¥ ~ilOEl al-Qur’OEn is one of the best, captivating, and most widelyread Qur’anic commentaries in the Middle East. But in the West his reputationas a writer has been effectively eclipsed mainly because of political considerations.Here, he is generally portrayed as the leading ideologue for the MuslimBrotherhood or al-Qaeda. Rather than perpetuate this negative impression,this editorial seeks to highlight the literary and artistic dimensions of his ~ilOEl.