I’m preparing a lecture on Sayyid Qutb (to be delivered late summer), so this makes me chuckle.
The connections: Qutb was executed by Egyptian gov’t in 1966 and became an Islamist martyr. Qutb’s writings were translated into Persian by Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomenei led the 1979 theocratic revolution in Iran. Ayatollah Khamenei is his successor.
Here’s the Ayatollah’s prompting tweet:
