Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966) was a literary critic and civil servant in Egypt’s Ministry of Education. He later joined the Muslim Brotherhood, becoming a radical ideologue, and was eventually imprisoned for his political activism and executed in 1966. Mathias Ghyoot is a PhD student in Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. He is author of Brothers Behind Bars: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood from the Palestine War to Egypt’s Prisons.

"An extraordinary work of scholarship that overturns familiar assumptions about Qutb’s sojourn in America. Through meticulous archival research and lucid translations of Qutb’s letters—many translated into English for the first time—Ghyoot situates Qutb within the intertwined histories of twentieth-century Islamic thought, decolonization, and the global Cold War. An indispensable book." —Brannon D. Ingram, Northwestern University"An amazing and valuable contribution to the scholarship on Qutb, and the more general field of Arab travelogues." —Peter C. Valenti, New York University

Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966) was a literary critic and civil servant in Egypt’s Ministry of Education. He later joined the Muslim Brotherhood, becoming a radical ideologue, and was eventually imprisoned for his political activism and executed in 1966. Mathias Ghyoot is a PhD student in Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. He is author of Brothers Behind Bars: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood from the Palestine War to Egypt’s Prisons.

"An extraordinary work of scholarship that overturns familiar assumptions about Qutb’s sojourn in America. Through meticulous archival research and lucid translations of Qutb’s letters—many translated into English for the first time—Ghyoot situates Qutb within the intertwined histories of twentieth-century Islamic thought, decolonization, and the global Cold War. An indispensable book." —Brannon D. Ingram, Northwestern University"An amazing and valuable contribution to the scholarship on Qutb, and the more general field of Arab travelogues." —Peter C. Valenti, New York University

Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966) was a literary critic and civil servant in Egypt’s Ministry of Education. He later joined the Muslim Brotherhood, becoming a radical ideologue, and was eventually imprisoned for his political activism and executed in 1966. Mathias Ghyoot is a PhD student in Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. He is author of Brothers Behind Bars: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood from the Palestine War to Egypt’s Prisons.

"An extraordinary work of scholarship that overturns familiar assumptions about Qutb’s sojourn in America. Through meticulous archival research and lucid translations of Qutb’s letters—many translated into English for the first time—Ghyoot situates Qutb within the intertwined histories of twentieth-century Islamic thought, decolonization, and the global Cold War. An indispensable book." —Brannon D. Ingram, Northwestern University"An amazing and valuable contribution to the scholarship on Qutb, and the more general field of Arab travelogues." —Peter C. Valenti, New York University