Crusade for Pan-Europe, New York: G | |
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It was during this period that Qutb wrote his first major theoretical work of religious social criticism, al-'Adala Tul-Ijtima'iyyatu Fil-Islam Social Justice in Islam , which was published in 1949, during his time overseas |
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Though Islam gave him much peace and contentment, he suffered from respiratory and other health problems throughout his life, thus he never married | Qutb discovered -very early- that the major aspects of the American life were primitive and "shocking" |
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Then he moved to Cairo where he received his university education between 1929 and 1933, and where he started his career as a teacher.
18Qutb was extremely critical of many things in the United States: its materialism, brutal individualism, merciless economic system, unreasonable restrictions on divorce, sick enthusiasm for sports, "animal-like" mixing of the sexes which went on even in churches , and lack of support for the Palestinian struggle | |
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GEO STRATEGIC NETWORK FOR STUDIES | He is best known for his work on redefining the role of Islam in social and political change, particularly in his book Ma'alimu fi-l-Tareeq Milestones |
His experience in the United States is believed to have formed in part the impetus for his rejection of Western values and his move towards Islam upon returning to Egypt.
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