Sayyid Qutb, possibly the most influential Islamist author, often described as " the man whose ideas would shape Al Qaeda ", also preached that the West was not just in conflict with Islam but plotting against it.

The phrase or similar phrases have been used by Muslims such as Ayatollah Khomeini, Sayyid Qutb, Osama bin Laden, the imam Anwar al-Awlaki and the organization Islamophobia Watch.

The book, written by MB Supreme Guide Hassan al-Hudaybi, attacked the idea of Takfir of other Muslims ( but was obstensively targeted not at Qutb but at Mawdudi, as al-Hudaybi had been a friend and supporter of Qutb ).

" According to Takfir, with the exception of Qutb ’ s Islamic vanguard, those who call themselves Muslims are not actually Muslim.

This prospect of fitna, or internal strife, between Qutbists and " takfir-ed " mainstream Muslims, was put to Qutb by prosecutors in the trial that led to his execution, and is still made by his Muslim detractors.

On the other hand, Qutb believed some learning was forbidden to Muslims and should not be studied, including:

Controversy over Qutbism is in part an expression of the disagreement of two of the main tendencies of the Islamic revival: the more traditional Salafi Muslims, and the more radically active Muslim groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the group Qutb was a member of for about the last decade and a half of his life.

* El-Kadi, Ahmed Great Muslims of the 20th Century ... Sayyid Qutb.

Qutb talked of an Islamist vanguard in his book Ma ' alim fi al-Tariq ( Milestones ) and Maududi formed an Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami whose goal was to establish an ideological state, administered for God solely by Muslims " whose whole life is devoted to the observance and enforcement " of Islamic law.

Jama ' at al-Muslimin ( Society of Muslims ), popularly known as Takfir wal-Hijra ( Arabic تكفير والهجرة, English " Excommunication and Exodus ", alternately " excommunication and emigration " or " anathema and exile "), was a radical Sunni Islamist group led by Shukri Mustafa, which emerged in Egypt in the 1960s as an offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood, inspired by Sayyid Qutb.

Qutb believed that Egyptians were no longer truly Muslims, as the contemporary Muslim community in Egypt and elsewhere had become Jahiliyyah, or reverted to pre-Islamic ignorance.

To restore Islam on earth and free Muslims from " jahili society, jahili concepts, jahili traditions and jahili leadership ," ( p. 21 ) Qutb preaches that a vanguard ( tali ' a ) be formed modeling itself after the original Muslims, the " companions " of Muhammad ( Sahaba ).

These Muslims successfully vanquished Jahiliyyah ( Qutb believes ) principally for two reasons:

" ( p. 150 ) Qutb ends his book by an example of persecution against Muslims from the Quran's " surat al-buruj ," enjoining modern-day Muslims to tolerate the same or worse tortures for the sake of carrying out God's will.

Olivier Roy has described Qutb's attitude towards the west is one of " radical contempt and hatred " for the West, rather than reasoned criticism, and complains that the propensity of Muslims like Qutb to blame problems on outside conspiracies " is currently paralyzing Muslim political thought.

Largely this is because scholars such as Sayyid Qutb were instrumental in the development of modern Islamic thought, and this man was a core member of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organisation that some Muslims see as the vanguard of their faith.

In his famous book Milestones, Islamist theoretician Sayyid Qutb angrily and repeatedly denounces the idea that Jihad war " is merely for defense ," blaming this foolish misconception on those Muslims " defeated by the attacks of the treacherous Orientalists!

Qutb believes Muslims were restrained from fighting for a brief time " in Mecca and in the early period of their migration to Medina ," but that following this " Muslims were permitted to fight, then they were commanded to fight against the aggressors ; and finally they were commanded to fight against all the polytheists ," ( which Qutb believes to include Christians and Jews ).

According to Qutb, this command is the final one for Muslims and is the one operative today.

To eliminate jahiliyya, Qutb argued Sharia, or Islamic law, must be established.

In a rigorous analysis of the shura chapter of the Qur ' an, Qutb noted that Islam requires only that the ruler consult with at least some of the ruled ( usually the elite ), within the general context of God-made laws that the ruler must execute.

In an analysis of the shura chapter of the Quran, Qutb argued Islam requires only that the ruler consult with at least some of the ruled ( usually the elite ), within the general context of God-made laws that the ruler must execute.

According to Adnan A. Musallam this can be traced to one of the founders of radical Islamism, Sayyid Qutb, who used the label to attack secular rulers such as Nasser, seen as creating " idols " based on un-Islamic Western and Marxist ideologies.

Taking advantage of the situation in Bijapur, Ahmadnagar's Nizam Shahi sultan allied with the Qutb Shahi of Golconda to attack Bijapur.

However, the euphoria of this victory proved short-lived as the sultans Nizam Shah, Qutb Shah, Barid Shah on one side and Adil Shah on the other used this distraction to cross the Krishna and attack the main Hindu divisions.

Qutb somehow escaped the attack and retreated to Kondavidu.

" Qutb states that while he was in America a young woman told him

His younger son, Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah, assassinated him while he was offering his prayers.

The Marquess of Dalhousie's policy of annexation, the doctrine of lapse ( or escheat ) applied by the British, and the projected removal of the descendants of the Great Mughal from their ancestral palace at Red Fort to the Qutb ( near Delhi ) also angered some people.

Exemplary figures of Islamic fundamentalism who are also termed Islamists are Sayyid Qutb, Ruhollah Khomeini, Abul Ala Mawdudi, and Israr Ahmad.

Qutb al-Din Shirazi ( b. 1236 ) also discussed the possibility of heliocentrism, but rejected it.

Qutbism ( also called Kotebism, Qutbiyya, or Qutbiyyah ) is a strain of Sunni Islamist ideology and activism, based on the thought and writings of Sayyid Qutb, an Islamist and former leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was executed in 1966.

When taken literally, Takfir also had the effect of causing non-Qutbists who claimed to be Muslim in violation of Sharia law, a law that Qutb very much supported.

The Qutb Minar (, ), also spelled Qutab or Qutub, is an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India.

Its construction also marked the end last of Hindu kingdoms in North India, and the beginning of Muslim rule in India, which ended only in the 19th century with the arrival of the British, and even today the Qutb remains one of the most important " Towers of Victory " in the Islamic world.

Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque ( Might of Islam ) ( also known as the Qutb Mosque or the Great Mosque of Delhi ) was built by Qutb-ud-din Aibak, founder of the Mamluk or Slave dynasty.

The tomb of Slave Dynasty ruler, Iltutmish, the second Sultan of Delhi ( r. 1211-1236 AD ), built 1235 AD is also part of the Qutb minarat Mehrauli.

Qutub Minar (; ) also Qutb Minar, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Delhi, India.

The iron pillar ( also known as the Ashokan pillar ) of Delhi, India, is a high pillar in the Qutb complex, notable for the composition of the metals used in its construction.

The religious tolerance displayed by the Nizam Shahi, Adil Shahi and Qutb Shahi rulers is also worthy of mention.

Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah patronised Telugu literature also.

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah was not only a great patron of art and literature but also a poet of high order.

There is also a legend of an underground tunnel connecting the Golkonda to Charminar, possibly intended as an escape route for the Qutb Shahi rulers in case of a siege, though the location of the tunnel is unknown.

The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is :"( Shaykh ) Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Shaykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of Javaad the son of Pirooz al-Kurdi al-Sanjani ( Piruz Shah Zarin Kolah the Kurd of Sanjan )" similar to the ancestry of Sheykh Safi al-Din's father in law, Sheikh Zahed Gilani, who also hailed from Sanjan, in Greater Khorassan.

The architectural legacy of the dynasty includes the Qutb Minar by Qutb-ud-din Aybak in Mehrauli, the Mausoleum of Prince Nasiru'd-Din Mahmud, eldest son of Iltumish, known as Sultan Ghari near Vasant Kunj, the first Islamic Mausoleum ( tomb ) built in 1231, and Balban's tomb, also in Mehrauli Archaeological Park.

Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah ( also transliterated in different ways ) ( Urdu: جمشید قلی قطب شاہ ) was the second ruler of the Sultanate of Golkonda under the Qutb Shahi dynasty.

Sultan Quli Qutb Shah () ( also transliterated in different ways ), a Turkmen from Hamadan, was the founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, which ruled the Sultanate of Golconda in southern India from 1518 to 1687.

Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah ( also transliterated in different ways ) ( Urdu: سلطان محمد قطب شاہ ) was the sixth ruler of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India under the Qutb Shahi dynasty.