Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual

by James Toth

Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden. But Qutb has too often been treated maliciously or reductively-"the Philosopher of Islamic Terror," as Paul Berman famously put it in the New York Times Magazine.

James Toth offers an even-handed account of Sayyid Qutb and shows him to be a much more complex figure than the many one-dimensional portraits would have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199790884
• ISBN13: 9780199790883
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.9"