Sayyid Qutb&#039;s Radical Islamism and the Comparative Political Theology

Dragos Stoica

doi:10.5771/9781666966848

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-6683-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-6684-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 368
Product type: Book Titles

Preface No access Pages i - x
1. Sayyid Qutb and Political Theology: A Case of Missed Connection No access
2. Setting the Methodological Lens I. New Comparativism: Political Theology and Political Theory beyond Contextualism and Essentialism No access
3. Setting the Methodological Lens II. Critical Discourse Analysis: Political Theology as a Specific Discursive Order No access
4. The Outline of the Book No access
5. Notes No access
1. Milestones on a Damascus Road. A Short Biography of an Arch-Radical No access
2. From Effendi to Shahid: Qutb’s Intellectual Biography as a Case of Conversion No access
3. Rediscovering Revelation: Qutb’s Early Aesthetic Theory of the Qur’an as a Premise for His Radical Exegesis No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. Mawdudi’s Influence on Qutb: Conceptual Filiation and Shared Worldview No access
2. Methodological Preamble: Critical Discourse Analysis and Radical Islamism: Anti-Modern Political Theology as Discursive Order No access
3. 1. The Islamic State as the Ideological State Par Excellence No access
  2. Islamic Revolution: Building the Islamic State from the Top Down No access
  3. Islam and Ideological Alterity: A Perpetually Polemical Encounter No access
  4. The Critique of Imperialism as the Malign Universalism of Western Domination No access
  5. The Critique of Nationalism and Capitalism: Against the Temptation of Modern Tribalism No access
  6. The Critique of Democracy: Theo-Democracy or How to Capture a Floating Signifier No access
4. 1. Purification by Faith Alone: Reclaiming the Ideograph of Ideology: The Islamic Manhaj and Its Characteristics No access
  2. The Islamic Order and Fitrah: The Islamization of the Ideograph of Human Nature No access
  3. The Critique of Ideology as Idols-Smashing: Against the Global Jahiliyyah No access
  4. The Greatest Purifier: Hakimiyyah and the Ideograph of Sovereignty No access
  5. 1. Nationalism: The Ideographs of Solidarity and Universality No access
    2. Communism: The Ideographs of Universality and Equality No access
    3. Capitalism: The Ideographs of Individual Freedom and Social Justice No access
    4. Democracy: The Ideographs of Freedom and Equity No access
5. Beyond Apologetics: Polemical Discourse and Islamization of Ideology in the Political Theologies of Sayyid Qutb and A. A. Mawdudi No access
6. Notes No access
1. Juan Donoso Cortés and His Legacy: A Sitz im Leben No access
2. The World as Perpetual War and History as the Clash of Civilizations No access
3. Qutb’s Anti-intellectualism and Donoso Cortés’s Decisionismo No access
4. Cortés’s Critique of Liberalism and Popular Sovereignty and Qutb’s Dismissal of Democracy No access
5. Qutb and Cortés’s Critiques of Socialism as the Seductive Secular Religion of Modernity No access
6. Notes No access
1. Abraham Kuyper: The Man with Ten Heads and a Hundred Arms: A Sitz im Leben No access
2. The Whole World Is a Battlefield. Antithesis Political Theology in Abraham Kuypers’s and Sayyid Qutb’s Critiques of Modernity No access
3. Hakimiyyah and Souvereiniteit in Eigen Kring: Two Expressions of a Political Theology of Absolute Monopoly of God’s Sovereingty No access
4. Qutb’s Anti-Speculative Critique of Modernity and Kuyper’s Critique of Liberalism as Intellectualism and Statism No access
5. Kuyper’s and Qutb’s Critiques of Socialism as the Ersatz Religion of Modernity No access
6. Notes No access
1. The Life and Time of an American Arch-Radical No access
2. A Meeting of Two Mavericks: Qutb and Rushdoony as Anti-Status-Quo Political Theologians No access
3. The Clash of Worldviews: The World as a Perennial Battlefield in Qutb’s and Rushdoony’s Visions of History and Society No access
4. Dismantling the Great Theft of Sovereignty: Qutb and Rushdoony as the Most Radical Political Theologians of God’s Sovereignty No access
5. God’s Sovereignty and the Dominion of Man: Qutb and Rushdoony Emancipatory Political Theology of Man as Viceroy of God on Earth No access
6. One Godly Community, Two Different Paths: Theocentric vs. Theocratic in Qutb’s and Rushdoony’s Designs for a Pure World of Faith in Action No access
7. 1. Rushdoony and the Modern State: The Unholy Synthesis of Leviathan and the Behemoth No access
  2. Democracy vs. Communism: The Superficial War of Commensurable Ideologies No access
  3. The Critique of Marxism: The Apex of the Religion of Humanism in Rushdoony’s Political Theology No access
8. Notes No access
1. Re-Framing and Decolonizing Political Theology No access
2. Recasting an Old Dichotomy: Sayyid Qutb as a Modern Political Saint No access
3. Antithesis Political Theology: The Long-Lasting Mark of Qutbian Political Theology No access
4. Sovereignty: Above and Beyond a Master Signifier. Lessons from the Other Side of Reason No access
5. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 339 - 352
Index No access Pages 353 - 366
About the Author No access Pages 367 - 368