POSTHUMOUS IMPACT ON RADICAL ISLAMISTS AND GLOBAL JIHADISTS

This research revolves around the transformations in the life and thought of radical Islamist Sayyid Qutb of Egypt (1906–1966), a prolific writer, a poet, an educator, a literary critic, and a highly controversial ideologue of contemporary Islamism who was executed by the late–President Nasser regime of Egypt on August 29, 1966. His posthumous impact on radical Islamists was profound on some leaders in Iran and Afghanistan and on al–Qaeda and its leaders, especially the late Dr. Ayman al–Zawahiri and fellow global jihadist Abdallah Azzam and many others, including the late–blind cleric Sheikh Omar Abd al–Rahman who immigrated and died in the United States.

-- Adnan A. Musallam, Ph.D.