Life, context, and core ideas. Qutb in historical context / Albert J. Bergesen
Qutb's core ideas / Albert J. Bergesen
Selected writings. Milestones
Prologue, from in the "Shade of the Qur'an", volume 7 : surah 8, al-Anfal (the spoils of war)
Characteristics of the Islamic approach
The liberation of mankind
How defensive is jihad?
A stage of no fighting
What justification for jihad?
A Gulf too wide!
A further point of view
Misgivings about jihad
The essence of jihad
For God's cause
Islam's revolutionary message
Characteristics of the call for an Islamic change
The need for jihad and its objective
The universal revolution
The battle of Badr
Rejecting wise counsel
Qur'anic comments
Why believers fight
To sum up the basis of inter-communal relations, from in the Shade of the Qur'an, volume 8, Surah 9, al-Tawbah (the repentance)
Peace or no peace
Under strong pressure
The nature of Islamic international relations
Crystallizing attitudes
An announcement is made
The principles of international relations
Honouring commitments
When the period of grace is over
Asylum for the enemy
No peace possible
No obligation honoured
An attitude confirmed by history
Hostility unabated
Doubts dispelled
An order to fight
Who may tend God's houses
Attitudes shaped by feelings
Reminder of a great event
Large forces avail nothing
The earth's suffocating expanse, from in the Shade of the Qur'an, volume 8, surah 9 : al-Tawbah (the repentance)
Overview
Where hypocrisy is hardest
The gap separating faith and hypocrisy
Those who lead the way
Early indications of weakness
The process of integration
Mixing good deeds with bad ones
Awaiting God's judgement
A mosque to promote unbelief
Houses of false worship
Religion and society in Christianity and in Islam, from social justice in Islam
Sorrows of the countryside, from a child of the countryside.
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The Sayyid Qutb reader : selected writings on politics, religion an society by Sayyid Quṭb. ISBN 9780415954259. Published by Routledge in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
