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Sayyid qutb.
SAYYID QUTB
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Q absence of moral values. Shortly after returning to Cairo in 1950, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood. He supported the 1952 coup d’état led by Gamal Abdel Nasser and a group of nationalist army officers known as the Free Officers Movement against the British-backed monarchy.
Gradually, however, Qutb came to regard the new regime as being unIslamic.
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After a failed 1954 assassination attempt against Nasser, the Muslim Brotherhood was dissolved and many of its members were arrested. Qutb was sentenced to 15 years in prison, where he reportedly endured severe torture. In prison, his writings took a more radical Islamist turn.
In 1964, he was released at the personal request of Iraqi President Abdul Salam Arif but rearrested within a few months and charged with conspiracy against the state. Qutb was sentenced to death by a military tribunal and executed in August 1966.
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