Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Qutb was an Egyptian Islamic scholar, revolutionary, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging. He is considered as "the Father of Salafi jihadism", the religio-political doctrine that underpins the ideological roots of global jihadist organisations such as al-Qaeda and ISIL.
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.
The Society of the Muslim Brothers, better known as the Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928. Al-Banna's teachings spread far beyond Egypt, influencing today various Islamist movements from charitable organizations to political parties.
The founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna
A gathering of senior youth scouts (jawala, lit. "travellers") in the 1940s.
Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb, who was executed in 1966
Then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meeting with then-Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, May 2013