ABSTRACT
This chapter explores important aspects of Qutb’s formative years during his rural life in his village and then in modern Cairo, where he graduated, was employed and was engaged in the affairs of modern Egypt. The discussion will focus on his early ideas and responses that found their way into his later writings, his involvement in sociopolitical activism, and his uneasy relationship with the British-backed government in Egypt and later with Gamal Abd al-Nasser.
