Qutbism

English

Alternative forms

  • Quṭbism (stricter transliteration)

Etymology

Qutb + -ism

Noun

Qutbism (uncountable)

  1. (Islam, politics) An Islamist ideology developed by Sayyid Qutb, the figurehead of the Muslim Brotherhood, involving the use of military force to propagate sharia law.
    • 2007, Bilveer Singh, The Talibanization of Southeast Asia: Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists:
      The ideology of Qutbism was pursued by Muhammad Abdul al-Salam Faraj, who emerged after Qutb as Egypt's most important Islamist revolutionaries.

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