Sayyid Qutb and the Crisis of Culture in late 1940s Egypt

0489996 - OÚ 2019 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Šabasevičiūtė, Giedrė
Sayyid Qutb and the Crisis of Culture in late 1940s Egypt.
International Journal of Middle East Studies. Roč. 50, č. 1 (2018), s. 85-101. ISSN 0020-7438. E-ISSN 1471-6380
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Egypt * history * Islamism * intellectuals * literature
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impact factor: 1.125, year: 2018
Method of publishing: Limited access

This article focuses on the writings and literary networks of the Egyptian intellectual and activist Sayyid Qutb during the late 1940s. Scholars have tended to explain Qutb's political radicalization and joining of the Muslim Brotherhood during the subsequent decade via aspects of his personality or personal life, such as his quick temper, conservatism, or frustration over unfulfilled aspirations to become a writer. Drawing on three periodicals published respectively by leftist, Islamist, and independent aspiring writers, I instead place Qutb's criticism of political, economic, and cultural elites in the context of an emerging generation of critical intellectuals. By shedding light on intellectual cooperation between Qutb, Muslim Brothers, Marxists, and independent writers, this article challenges established scholarly narratives that locate the Islamist project outside the Egyptian intellectual field
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