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Sayyid Qutb (Arabic سيد قطب‎; October 9, 1906 - August 29, 1966) was an Egyptian Islamist, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and inspiration, through his brother Muhammad for the Al-Qaeda group, and through his student Ayman Zawahiri, for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

Sayyid Qutb: Biography

Qutb grew up in the small Egyptian village of Musha and educated in the traditional way based on the Quran.

He moved to Cairo.  There he got a Western-style education between 1929 and 1933 and took a job as a a teacher in the Ministry of Public Instruction. In this period he was apparently a secular reformist, but was mostly concerned with literature rather than politics.

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He  wrote novels including  Ashwak (Thorns) and helped to publicize liberal Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz. In 1939, Qutb became an administrator in the Egyptian Ministry of Education.

In 1948, Qutb was sent to the United States on a scholarship, ostensibly to study the educational sy