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From pre-revolutionary Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood, and from imprisonment to exile, this is the life of Fathi Osman: a leading Egyptian-born thinker who was at the forefront of modern Islamic reformism for nearly four decades. Here, in A Journey in Islamic Thought, his daughter Ghada Osman, an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Asian and Middle Eastern Languages, explores his life, ideology and lasting intellectual influence. Over the past decade the most visible face of Islamization has been that of militant Islam. However, whilst formulating his ideas in the 1950s and 1960s, its instigator and key figure of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sayyid Qutb, was in dialogue with another Islamist of a different persuasion: Fathi Osman. Joining the Muslim Brotherhood as a young man growing up in Egypt, Osman rose through the ranks of the organization, thanks to his own considerable skills in oratory and his relationship with leading Brotherhood figures, Sayyid Qutb and Hasan al-Hudaybi. But as he began to realise the covert violent aspects of the Brotherhood he increasingly distanced himself and voiced his opposition. Nevertheless, due to his association with the Muslim Brothers, he was i

Author

Osman, Ghada

Publisher

I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan; London; I. B. Tauris

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781848857476

Subjects

Islam, History, Biography