Qutb

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He was influenced by Sayyid Qutb, the Sunni Egyptian theoretician of the Muslim Brotherhood who propagated the idea of an Islamic Republic.

From The Wall Street Journal

Khamenei even translated several of Qutb’s works into Persian.

From The Wall Street Journal

He rejected the teachings of renowned Muslim Brotherhood firebrand Sayyid Qutb, whose support of armed struggle helped give the ideological underpinnings for al-Qaeda, Egypt’s Islamic Jihad and, later, some leaders of the Islamic State.

From Washington Post

“His invalidation of Qutb’s thought on jihad, in making the distinction that individual terrorist attacks are not jihad and that jihad is governed by specific rules, is his greatest legacy,” the veteran Egyptian journalist Abdel Azim Hammad said in an interview.

From New York Times

An earnest, academically gifted youth, he was influenced early in life by one of his uncles, Mahfouz Azzam, an impassioned critic of Egypt’s secularist government, and by the writings of Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian author and intellectual who became one of the founders of 20th-century Islamist extremism.

From Washington Post