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"An excellent book which sheds new light on an extremely important figure.-- ""Walter Armbrust, author of Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution"" Coming from the French tradition of the sociology of knowledge and combining it with critical intellectual history and a careful understanding of the anthropology of Islam, Sabaseviciute goes beyond these deconstructions to explain to us in detail the Egyptian literary world and the visions of its protagonists after 1945 and the new shifts within this world after 1952.-- ""Bettina Gräf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München"" 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"" The most complete intellectual biography to date. A massive contribution to Egyptian intellectual history.-- ""Yoav Di-Capua, University of Texas at Austin"""

An excellent book which sheds new light on an extremely important figure.-- ""Walter Armbrust, author of Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution"" Coming from the French tradition of the sociology of knowledge and combining it with critical intellectual history and a careful understanding of the anthropology of Islam, Sabaseviciute goes beyond these deconstructions to explain to us in detail the Egyptian literary world and the visions of its protagonists after 1945 and the new shifts within this world after 1952.-- ""Bettina Gräf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München"" 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"" 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 Sabaseviciute 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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