A Critical Study of Seyyed Qutb's ideas about Muslim's Ignorance

Seyyed Qutb was a member of Egyptian Ikhwan ul-Muslimin who was executed in 1966 because of accusations of activities against Egyptian government. Main parts of his thoughts were about the concept of Jahiliyah (ignorance) and included the rejecting of the contemporary Muslims as true ones. In this research, Qutb’s writings were studied using the library method and the result gained was that his main thoughts were not new ones and they used to exist in olamas’ thoughts during the history of Islam but he used new and sometimes wrong and delusive words to express them. It also turned out that the main reason for this problem was Qutb’s enthusiasm for opposing the society and government by using any means in way that sometimes he has used Islamic concepts in a wrong way.