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Sayyid Qutb

1906 - 1966

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Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb (9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood. As the author of 24 books, with around 30 books unpublished for different reasons (mainly destruction by the state), and at least 581 articles, including novels, literary arts critique and works on education, Qutb is best known in the Muslim world for his work on what he believed to be the social and political role of Islam, particularly in his books Social Justice and Ma'alim fi al-Tariq (Milestones). His magnum opus, Fi Zilal al-Qur'an (In the Shade of the Qur'an), is a 30-volume commentary on the Quran. During most of his life, Qutb's inner circle mainly consisted of influential politicians, intellectuals, poets and literary figures, both of his age and of the preceding generation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sayyid Qutb is the 383rd most popular writer (down from 295th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 60th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Egyptian Writer.

Sayyid Qutb is most famous for his book In the Shade of the Qur'an.

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Among writers, Sayyid Qutb ranks 383 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucy Maud Montgomery, Salman Rushdie, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Margaret Mitchell, Appian, and Karl May. After him are Constantine P. Cavafy, Alphonse de Lamartine, Ali-Shir Nava'i, Julio Cortázar, Auguste Escoffier, and Cornelius Nepos.

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Among people born in 1906, Sayyid Qutb ranks 29. Before him are Ernst Ruska, Albert Hofmann, Victor Vasarely, Roberto Rossellini, Hans Bethe, and Léopold Sédar Senghor. After him are Giuseppe Farina, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ilse Koch, Sergei Korolev, Hassan al-Banna, and Hermann Fegelein. Among people deceased in 1966, Sayyid Qutb ranks 11. Before him are Margaret Sanger, Peter Debye, Georges Lemaître, Alberto Giacometti, Sepp Dietrich, and Jean Arp. After him are Giuseppe Farina, Sergei Korolev, Frits Zernike, George de Hevesy, Cemal Gürsel, and Felix Steiner.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Sayyid Qutb ranks 75 out of 642. Before him are Tiye (-1398), Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), Mary of Egypt (344), Ptolemy VIII Physcon (-182), Arsinoe III of Egypt (-246), and Appian (95). After him are Saint Apollonia (110), Constantine P. Cavafy (1863), Cleopatra IV of Egypt (-138), Fuad I of Egypt (1868), Berenice III of Egypt (-120), and Mohamed ElBaradei (1942).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Sayyid Qutb ranks 4. Before him are Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), and Appian (95). After him are Constantine P. Cavafy (1863), Athenaeus (200), Lactantius (250), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876), Claudian (370), Nonnus (500), Dionysius Thrax (-170), and Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190).

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