Qutb was raised
in the Egyptian village of Musha and studied the Qur'an from a young
age. He moved to Cairo, where he could receive an education based on the
British style of schooling, between 1929 and 1933, before starting his
career as a teacher in the Ministry of Public Instruction. During his
early career, Qutb devoted himself to literature as an author and
critic, writing such novels as Ashwak (Thorns) and even helped to
elevate Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz from obscurity. In 1939, he
became a functionary in Egypt's Ministry of Education (wizarat
al-ma'arif ).
From 1948 to
1950, he went to the United States on a scholarship to study its
educational system, studying for several months at Colorado State
College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in
Greeley, Colorado. Qutb's first major theoretical work of religious
social criticism, Al-'adala al-Ijtima'iyya fi-l-Islam (Social Justice in
Islam), was published in 1949, during his time in the West.
Though Islam
gave him much peace and contentment,[14] he suffered from respiratory
and other health problems throughout his life and was known for "his
introvertedness, isolation, depression and concern." In appearance, he
was "pale with sleepy eyes."[15] Qutb never married, in part because of
his steadfast religious convictions. While the urban Egyptian society he
lived in was becoming more Westernized, Qutb believed the Quran taught
women that `Men are the managers of women's affairs ...' [16] Qutb
lamented to his readers that he was never able to find a woman of
sufficient "moral purity and discretion" and had to reconcile himself to
bachelorhood.[17] (Wikipediya)
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