Islam Misunderstood Religion by Muhammad Qutb (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. This book is an English translation of the sicth edition of the Arabic text: (Shubhat Houlal Islam) published in Cairo 1964) is one of the best books on Islam. It has been written by a great and learned Scholar of Islam.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: very light wear to the extremities; sticker residue and some faint soiling to the pale green background field of the front panel of the wrapper covers; a faint stress crease to the upper front corner tip and a rather heavy crease to the center of the backstrip (the binding is sewn and remains quite secure) ; a former owner's short gift inscription at the upper corner of the front endpaper; a mild nudge of the upper corner of the rear panel and imparting a faint buckle the the last quarter or so of the text pages; the binding leans slightly but remains secure. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A gently-used reading copy, structurally sound and tightly bound; not unattractive, but showing a few minor imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo (8.5 x 5.75 x 0.65 Inches) . Translated from the Sixth Arabic edition published in 1964 in Cairo, Egypt. Language: English. Weight: 16.5 ounces. Pale green self-wraps with darker green titles at the front panel and backstrip. This edition not itself dated. Paperback. Muhammad Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb (1919 2014) was an Islamic scholar and the younger brother of the famed Egyptian revolutionary Sayyid Qutb. After his brother was executed by the Egyptian government, Muhammad moved to Saudi Arabia, where he promoted his brother's ideas. He was arrested a few days before Sayyid (on July 29, 1965) for his alleged co-leadership along with his brother in a plot to kill leading political and cultural figures in Egypt and overthrow the government. His brother was hanged in 1966, but Muhammad's life was spared and he, along with other members of the Muslim Brotherhood took refuge in Saudi Arabia. While there, he edited and published Sayyid's books and taught as a professor of Islamic Studies at Mecca's Umm al-Qura University, and King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, and that Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri (al Qaeda's #2 and leading theorist) , was a student. Osama bin Laden recommended Sheikh Muhammad Qutb's book, 'Concepts that Should be Corrected' in a 2004 videotape. In addition to making available his brother's work, he worked to advance his ideas by "smoothing away" differences between his brother's radical supporters and more conservative Muslims, particularly other members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Muhammad took a less-literal interpretation of his brother's famous statement that the Muslim world and Muslim governments were jahiliyya, or had returned to pagan ignorance, and thus no longer Muslim. He denied that the country that had given him refuge (Saudi Arabia) was jahiliyya and in 1975 came out publicly against takfir, or judging Muslims as unbelievers. He also worked to reconcile the doctrine of the Muslims Brothers with "the salafism that prevailed in his host country". Muhammad Qutb was an author in his own right and his writings are widespread in the Arab world and nearly as prolific as his brother's. 'Jahiliyya in the Twentieth Century' is a well-known work, and gained notoriety as an alleged terrorist handbook (along with his brother's work 'Milestones') when the government claimed to find the two in police searches of plotters' homes and environs. In this very popular work, 'Islam: the Misunderstood Religion', Qutb expands on his brother's ideas, describing the ways in which fundamentalist Islam is vastly superior to the "perverted" ideas prevalent in the Western world. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 358 pages.