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An excellent manuscript which sheds new light on an extremely important figure. It is highly original, and based on an extremely impressive synthesis of a large corpus of literature, both Qutb's own writings and those of his contemporaries.--Walter Armbrust, author of Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution This important topic is presented here through an impressively broad corpus of sources, with a remarkable depth of analysis and an original argument. The author's knowledge of the literary scene of early to mid 20th century Cairo is second to none, and so is her ability to bring it to life with important analytical implications.--Lucie Ryzova, University of Birmingham Is it still possible to say something new and meaningful about the well-studied Islamist Sayyid Qutb? Apparently yes. Hidden in this modest book is a fresh, sober and holistic reappraisal of Sayyid Qutb's entire intellectual life. Stitching together Qutb's misunderstood early career as a failed literary critic and romantic poet with his later occupation as a successful ideologue of fundamentalist Islam, Dr. Sabaseviciute presented the most complete intellectual biography to date. A massive contribution to Egyptian intellectual history.--Yoav Di-Capua, University of Texas at Austin

An excellent manuscript which sheds new light on an extremely important figure. It is highly original, and based on an extremely impressive synthesis of a large corpus of literature, both Qutb's own writings and those of his contemporaries.--Walter Armbrust, author of Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution This important topic is presented here through an impressively broad corpus of sources, with a remarkable depth of analysis and an original argument. The author's knowledge of the literary scene of early to mid 20th century Cairo is second to none, and so is her ability to bring it to life with important analytical implications.--Lucie Ryzova, University of Birmingham

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Giedre Šabaseviciute is research fellow at the Oriental Institute in the Czech Academy of Sciences, specializing in Egypt's intellectual past and present.

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