POSTHUMOUS IMPACT ON RADICAL ISLAMISTS AND GLOBAL JIHADISTS

<p>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.</p>