aug 29, 1966 - Sayyid Qutb

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Sayyid 'Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn Quṭb., Arabic: سيد قطب إبراهيم حسين‎ Sayyid Quṭb; 9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966), known popularly as Sayyid Qutb (Arabic: سيد قطب‎), was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic scholar, theorist, revolutionary, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging.
Born Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb
9 October 1906
Mūshā, Asyut Governorate, Egypt
Died 29 August 1966 (aged 59)
Cairo, Egypt

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