Title of the book: Sayyid Qutb and Qur’anic Method of Exhortation – Critical reading in his commentary: “Fi Dhilal al Qur’an, particularly in Chapter al-An’am”
Author: Prof.Dr.Hajredin Hoxha
Translated by: Edin Q. Lohja | United States of America
Edited by: Ornela Ademovi | United States of America
Table of Contents
ABSTRACT ………………………………….. 15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ……………………………………. 17
THE FORM OF RESEARCH ……………….. 20
Chapter 1: ………………………………………………… 24
1.1 PART I …………………………………………………………. 24
1.1.1 Introduction ………………………. 24
1.1.2 The importance of the topic ……………………………. 29
1.1.3 Reasons for choosing this topic …………………………. 30
1.1.4 Issues involved and questions pertaining to this research ………………………. 30
1.1.5 Earlier studies ………………………………………………………………. 31
1.1.6 Method of research ………………………………………………. 35
1.2 PART II ………………………. 36
1.2.1 Sayyid Qutb’s Birth …………………………. 36
1.2.2 His upbringing and growth …………………………………… 38
1.2.3 Characteristics of his childhood …………………………………… 39
1.2.4 His trips and his scholarly activity ………………………………………………. 40
1.2.5 His activity and works ………………………………………………… 47
1.2.6 His martyrdom ……………………………………………….. 55
Chapter 2: ……………………. 60
2.1 PART I: …………………………………………………… 60
2.2 PART II: …………………………………………………………… 81
2.2.1 The description made by Shaykh Manna’a al-Kattan who said: ………………. 82
2.2.2 The comments made by prof.dr. Adnan Muhammad Zarzur who writes: ……. 83
2.2.3 The description by Salah Abd al-Fatah al-Khalidi who writes: …………………. 85
2.2.4 The description by the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Al Sheikh
Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh who says: ………………………………… 87
2.2.5 The description of prof.dr. Nusair Zarwaq who writes: …………………………. 89
2.2.6 The description of sheikh Salman al-Awdah, he writes: ………………………….. 90
2.2.7 The description of sheikh Hammud bin uklaa’a al-Shuaibi who said: ……….. 92
2.2.8 The description of the author of this book: prof.dr. Hajredin Hoxha, who says: 96
2.3 PART III …………………………………………………………. 98
2.3.1 Sayyid Qutb’s method in his commentary …………………………….. 98
Chapter 3: ……………………………………………………………………. 106
3.1 PART I: ……………………………… 106
3.1.1 Reasons for choosing Surah al-An’am …………………………………… 106
3.1.2 Topics of the Surah …………………………………………………….. 110
3.1.3 Name and reason for the Surah ……………………………………………. 114
3.1.4 On the value of this Surah and its descent ………………………………………. 116
3.1.5 Some general ways of exhortation, da’wah in the Noble Qur’an …………….. 119
3.2 PART II ………………………………………………………………………………. 124
3.2.1 Characteristics and specifics of Qutb’s method in understanding the verses
pertaining to da’wah ………………………………………………… 124
3.2.2 Exhorting Muslims to reforms (improvement) through the following ways: … 126
3.2.3 The correcting of the method of thinking, investigating, and exhorting according
to the gnostic and educational method ……………………………………. 155
3.2.4 Exhorting unbelievers to Islam, through the following ways: …………….. 160
3.2.5 The Qur’ani method in defeating the ignorance conceptions, through the
following steps: …………………………………………. 173
Chapter 4: …………………………………………………………………………. 200
4.1 PART I: ……………………………………………………………………. 200
4.1.1 The caller’s qualities in the Qur’anic method ………………………………… 200
4.2 PART II:………………………………… 234
4.2.1 Views on Sayyid Qutb’s method ………………………………………………. 234
4.2.2 Conclusion and suggestions …………………………………………….. 244
