Table of contents for The Sayyid Qutb reader : selected writings on politics, religion, and society / edited by Albert J. Bergesen.

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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part One: Life, Context, and Core Ideas
Chapter 1. Qutb in Historical Context
Albert J. Bergesen
Chapter 2. Qutb¿s Core Ideas
Albert J. Bergesen
Part Two: Selected Writings
Chapter 3. Milestones 		
Chapter 4. Prologue, from In The Shade of the Qur¿an, Volume 7: SURAH 8, Al-Anfal (The Spoils of War). 
Characteristics of the Islamic Approach
The Liberation of Mankind
How Defensive is Jihad?
A Stage of No Fighting
What justification for Jihad?
A Gulf Too Wide!
A Further Point of View
	Misgivings about jihad
	The essence of jihad
	For God¿s cause
	Islam¿s revolutionary message
	Characteristics of the call for an Islamic change
	The need for jihad and its objective
	The Universal revolution
The Battle of Badr
Rejecting Wise Counsel
Qur¿anic Comments
Why Believers Fight
To Sum up
Chapter 5. The Basis of Inter-Communal Relations, from In The Shade of the Qur¿an, Volume 8, SURAH 9, Al-Tabah (The Repentance).
Peace or No Peace
Under Strong Pressure
The Nature of Islamic International Relations
Crystallizing Attitudes
An Announcement is Made
The Principles of International Relations
Honouring Commitments
When the Period of Grace is Over
Asylum for the Enemy
No Peace Possible
No Obligation Honoured
An Attitude Confirmed by History 
Hostility Unabated
Doubts Dispelled
An Order to Fight
Who may Tend God¿s Houses
Attitudes Shaped by Feelings
Reminder of a Great Event
Large Forces Avail Nothing
Chapter 6. The Earth¿s Suffocating Expanse, from In The Shade of the Qur¿an, Volume 8, SURAH 9: Al-Tawbah (The Repentance). 
Overview
Where Hypocrisy is Hardest
The Gap Separating Faith and Hypocrisy
Those Who Lead the Way
	Early Indications of Weakness
	The Process of Integration
Mixing Good Deeds with Bad Ones
Awaiting God¿s Judgement
A Mosque to Promote Unbelief
Houses of False Worship
Chapter 7. Religion and Society in Christianity and in Islam, from Social Justice in Islam.
Chapter 8. Sorrows of the Countryside, from A Child of the Countryside.

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Islam.