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Sayyid Qutb  

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  • Best known for providing an ideological basis for militant Islamic political resistance, Sayyid Qutb has come to be known as the intellectual father of modern-day jihad. His writings have influenced Islamist radicals such as Abd al-Salam al-Faraj, Mustafa al-Shukri, and Ayman al-Zawahiri. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Qutb, Sayyid (1906–1966)]

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