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The Sayyid Qutb reader : selected writings on politics, religion, and society / edited by Albert J. Bergesen.

Quṭb, Sayyid, 1906-1966.

New York : Routledge, 2007.

9780415954242 (hardback : alk. paper)

9780415954259 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index.

Table of contents only : http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0725/2007034647.html

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.

[xi], 175 p. ; 25 cm.

Bergesen, Albert.

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