Biography of sayyid qutb execution date

In spite of several demonstrations and many objections in various Muslim countries, Sayyid Qutb was executed by hanging on August 29, He left behind a total of .

He is best known for his theoretical work on redefining the role of Islamic fundamentalism in social and political change, particularly in his books "Social Justice" and Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq Milestones. His extensive Quranic commentary Fi zilal al-Qur'an In the shades of the Qur'an has contributed significantly to modern perceptions of Islamic concepts such as jihad , jahiliyyah, and ummah.

Qutb was arrested and imprisoned in following publication of Milestones. He was released in following the personal intervention of the President of Iraq. A year later he was re-arrested. In August he was executed, found guilty of conspiring against the government. He is widely credited as one of the main intellectual leaders of Islamism, and as justifying revolution against regimes considered to be un-Islamic.

His extensive writing on the Qur'an pioneered a new trend for Muslims to read and interpret the text for themselves, since he was not a traditionally trained scholar nor did he follow a conventional format in his commentaries. His approach engaged with the cadence of the Arab text, capturing even in English translation the beauty of the original Arabic often obscured in English renderings.

His legacy is both revered and reviled, depending on the sympathies of those who read his books. Qutb was raised in the Egyptian village of Musha and educated from a young age in the Qur'an.

In , he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging.

He moved to Cairo , where he received a Western education between and , before starting his career as a teacher in the Ministry of Public Instruction. During his early career, Qutb devoted himself to literature as an author and critic, writing such novels as Ashwak Thorns and even elevating Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz from obscurity.

In he became a functionary in Egypt's Ministry of Education wizarat al-ma'arif. From to he went to the United States on a scholarship to study the educational system, receiving a master's degree from the Colorado State College of Education now the University of Northern Colorado. Qutb's first major theoretical work of religious social criticism, Al-'adala al-Ijtima'iyya fi-l-Islam Social Justice in Islam , was published in , during his time overseas.

Aside from his untimely end Qutb's personal life was not always happy.