His brother Muhammad fled to Saudi Arabia with surviving members of the Muslim Brotherhood after the 1966 coup which led to this man being executed for plotting to overthrow Anwar Sadat.
This man ended one of his books by urging followers to endure persecution, using the example from scripture of people being burned alive in a trench. This man traced his departure from secularism to the time he watched his boat rock in the sea without capsizing and to the time he saw all of creation sprawled out in front of him at the summit of a mountain. In his manifesto Milestones, this author of the exegetical text In the Shade of the Qu'ran asserted that, because of jahiliyyah, or ignorance of divine guidance, Islam had been (*) extinct for several centuries. After spending two years as a student in Greeley, Colorado, this man published "The America I Have Seen," decrying the sexual openness of the West. His brother Muhammad fled to Saudi Arabia with surviving members of the Muslim Brotherhood after the 1966 coup which led to this man being executed for plotting to overthrow Anwar Sadat. For 10 points, name this Egyptian theologian, often considered the intellectual forefather of radical Islam.
This man ended one of his books by urging followers to endure persecution, using the example from scripture of people being burned alive in a trench.
Sayyid Qutb