'This rich and carefully researched ‘Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Islamic Radicalsm will become the standard intellectual biography of the most influential Muslim thinker of the twentieth century. Demonstrating a deep engagement with contemporary history, religious thought, and social theory, Calvert eschews the sensationalism that too often posits Qutb as the ideological.
Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential this is a book about Sayyid Qutb (–66), the influential egyptian ideologue of islamism. it traces the development of Qutb’s worldview from his village childhood up to his execution at the hands of egypt’s ‘abd al-nasser regime. in so doing, it pays attention to the gamut of influences—cultural, political, social and economic—that shaped his.
John Calvert. New York: Columbia
In Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism, John Calvert provides a critical intellectual biography of Sunni Islamism’s most prominent 20th century proponent. 
Sayyid Qutb and the An expert on social protest and political resistance, John Calvert rescues Qutb from misrepresentation and follows the evolution of his thought within the context of his time. Calvert recounts Qutb's life from the small village in which he was raised to his execution at the behest of Abd al-Nasser's regime.
Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an John Calvert, Professor of History at Creighton University, in his forthcoming biography of Sayyid Qutb, “rescues Qutb from misrepresentation, tracing the evolution of his thought within the context of his time.”.
Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an Contributing to the study of this influential Egyptian ideologue, John Calvert and William Shepard have recently translated Qutb’s autobiography A Child from the Village.
"Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential An expert on social protest and political resistance in the modern Middle East, as well as Egyptian nationalism, John Calvert recounts Qutb's life from the small village in which he was raised.
In Sayyid Qutb and the In his book, “Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism,” John Calvert attempted to read Sayyed Qutb from his literary phase to his revolutionary Islamic phase, which did not come violently - as the book sees it - until the mid-fifties, although Calvert does not aim to defend Qutb as his most famous biographer did.