THE DICHOTOMY OF «THE ISLAMIC WORLD - THE WEST» IN THE DOCTRINE OF SAYID QUTB

Abstract

This article analyses the relationship between the West and the Islamic World in the teaching of a famous Egyptian Islamic thinker and an ideological leader of the Muslim Brothers Association - Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966). Qutb considers Islam as a unique and universal social system which eventually will oppose the materialistic and hedonistic system of the West. In his writings Qutb predicted, that the real clash in the World will arise between the faithless West and the Islamic system deriving from «the only true sacred knowledge».