Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj
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Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj was an Egyptian radical Islamist, convicted murderer by proxy, and theorist. He led the Cairo branch of the Islamist group al-Jihad and made a significant contribution in e
عبد السلام فرج
Sayyid Qutb
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Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj
…placed after the five pillars as the most important aspect of Islam. Faraj also had very specific views on what form this jihad should take. He followed Sayyid Qutb in arguing that jihad was a fard al-ayn (an individual duty incumbent upon every Muslim). He dismissed the notion that inner spiritual struggle was the…
Qutb on trial in 1966
Sayyid Qutb during his years of imprisonment
Anwar al-Awlaki
Osama bin Laden, founder and first leader of al-Qaeda