What is Qutbism?
'''Qutbism''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: ٱلْقُطْبِيَّةِ, <small>[[Romanization|romanized]]:</small> ''al-Quṭbīyah'') is a [[political philosophy]] that comes from the [[Aalim|Islamic scholar]] and thinker [[Sayyid Qutb]]. ==Sayyid Qutb== Qutb was a leading member of an [[Islamism|Islamist]] political group called the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], founded in [[Egypt]] in 1928 by a different Islamic scholar, [[Hasan al-Banna]]. It is banned in Egypt and in a number of other Arab countries, such as [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Qatar]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]], even though these are also all Sunni Muslim states. [[File:Sayyid Qutb.jpg|alt=A photo shows Sayyid Qutb behind jail bars. He is wearing a Western style suit and striped tie. It is the only known photo of him on trial before his execution. |thumb|Sayyid Qutb in 1966]] Qutbism is a Sunni [[Islamic philosophy|philosophy]]. Its main associate, the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], has supported other Sunni Islamist groups from the beginning of its foundation, including the Syrian Opposition groups, [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIS]] and [[Hamas]] (until 2017). ==Core beliefs== Qutbism shares many core beliefs with other [[Reformist Islam|reformist]] Islamist philosophies, such as [[Wahhabi|Wahhabism]] and [[Salafi|Salafism]]. The main one being that for [[Century|centuries]], the [[Ummah|Muslim community]] has not been following true Islam and must be reinvigorated by following the [[Hadith|beliefs of the Prophet]] and his community. ===Taqfir=== The most [[Controversy|controversial]] and well-known aspect of Qutb's philosophy is ''[[Apostasy in Islam|takfirism]]'' – the belief that Muslims who do not adhere to his strict tenets of Islam are not Muslim but apostates. In [[Sharia law]], the penalty for apostasy is the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]]. Controversially, he claimed that the entire Muslim world had become ''taqfir'', as they no longer practised Islam as the prophet did. Therefore, they had fallen into a state of ''[[jahiliyah]]'' – a wor