Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism

John Calvert

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August, 2010
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70104-4
$29.50

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Related Subjects

• Islam
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

John Calvert is associate professor of history at Creighton University, Nebraska. He is the author of Islamism: A Documentary and Reference Guide and coeditor and translator of Sayyid Qutb's A Child from the Village. His research focuses on social protest and political resistance movements in the modern Middle East, as well as Egyptian nationalism and the ideological origins of al-Qaeda.

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