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The America I Saw: Travels of an Islamist in the Making
Paperback
Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresTravel Writing
ISBN13: 9780815612476
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Apr 15 2027
Pages: 282
Language: English
In 1948, Egyptian writer and civil servant Sayyid Qutb crossed the Atlantic on a twenty-two-month study mission, traveling from New York to California to examine Western education. What he recorded instead was a searing yet nuanced account of a civilization he believed was surrendering to materialism. The America I Saw gathers thirty-three of Qutb's essays, letters, poems, book reviews, and commentaries on America--translated into English for the first time.
Written in the years before he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, these pieces reveal a lesser-known Qutb: not yet the radical executed in 1966 but a searching intellectual grappling with racism, labor, and colonialism alongside contemporary traveling writers in the United States like Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Drawing on previously unstudied archival material from Egypt and the United States, the volume's vital introduction demystifies Qutb's American sojourn and reframes him as an anticolonial theorist, a conservative critic of the modern world order, and an emerging Islamist.
An indispensable primary source, The America I Saw offers scholars and students of Islamic and Middle East studies a revelatory window into a formative mind--and into postwar America itself.
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