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“If the Brothers succeed”: Azzam, “Martyr Sayyid Qutb.”
pay him a fee: al-Khaledi, Sayyid Qutb: al-adib, 149.
“I decided to enter”: Azzam, “Martyr Sayyid Qutb.” Qutb himself writes, however, that he didn’t formally join the Brotherhood until 1953. Qutb, Limadah ‘azdamunee.
17 Summer courses: interview with Michael Welsh, who is the source of much of the information on the history of Greeley; interviews with Peggy A. Ford, Janet Waters, Ken McConnellogue, Jaime McClendon, Ibrahim Insari, and Frank and Donna Lee Lakin.
greatest civilizations: Peggy A. Ford, personal communication.
highly publicized: Larson, Shaping Educational Change, 5.
mandatory virtues: ibid.
18 James Michener: Peggy A. Ford, personal communication.
“small city”: Qutb, “Hamaim fi New York,” 666.
Garden City: interview with Michael Welsh.
“They were kicking”: al-Khaledi, Amrika min al-dakhil, 181.
19 Meeker: Geffs, Under Ten Flags, 156–57; interview with Michael Welsh.
Middle Eastern community: interview with Sa‘eb Dajani.
“But we’re Egyptians”: interview with Sa‘eb Dajani.
several of the Arab students: interview with Ibrahim Insari.
“racism had brought”: al-Khaledi, Amrika min al-dakhil, 169.
“The foot does not”: Qutb, “Amrika allati ra’ayt” (b), 1301–2.
20 “simply biological”: al-Khaledi, Amrika min al-dakhil, 194.
22 Qutb acted as host: interview with Ibrahim Insari.
classical records: interview with Sa‘eb Dajani.
“Jazz is”: Qutb, “Amrika allati ra’ayt” (b), 1301.
“dancing hall”: ibid., 1301–6.
“estrangement”: al-Khaledi, Amrika min al-dakhil, 157.
23 “The soul has”: Sayyid Qutb, letter to Tewfig al-Hakeem, in al-Khaledi, Amrika min al-dakhil, 196–97.
“white man”: ibid., 39.
24 Islam and modernity: Abu-Rabi, Intellectual Origins, 156; Berman, Terror and Liberalism, 87ff.
Qutb returned: interview with Mohammed Qutb; al-Khaledi, Sayyid Qutb: al-adib, 152.
two hundred red automobiles: Rodenbeck, Cairo, 152.
25 “It is the nature”: Neil MacFarquhar, “Egyptian Group Patiently Pursues Dream of Islamic State,” New York Times, January 20, 2002.
lower-middle class: Ibrahim, Egypt Islam and Democracy, 36.
more than a million: interview with Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
intimately organized: Mitchell, Society of the Muslim Brothers, 32.
In retaliation: Abdel-Malek, Egypt, 34; Rodenbeck, Cairo, 155. Nutting, Nasser, 31, gives the alternative figure of forty-three policemen dead and seventy-two wounded.
led by members: Abdel-Malek, Egypt, 35.
26 classical music albums: interview with Fahmi Howeidi. Other observations of Qutb’s villa were made during a tour of Helwan with Mahfouz Azzam.
Some of the planning: interview with Gamal al-Banna; al-Khaledi, Sayyid Qutb: al-shaheed, 140–41; al-Khaledi, Sayyid Qutb: al-adib, 159. Members of the Free Officers who were in the society are listed in Abdel-Malek, Egypt, 94, 210–11.
“just dictatorship”: Sivan, Radical Islam, 73.
Nasser then invited: Mohammed Qutb, personal communication.
he was offered: al-Khaledi, Sayyid Qutb: al-shaheed, 142.
The Islamists wanted: interview with Olivier Roy; Roy, Afghanistan, 37–39.
opposed egalitarianism: Heikal, Autumn of Fury, 127.
secret alliance: Ibid., 141.
28 “Let them kill”: nasser.bibalex.org
placing thousands: ibid.; figures range from “dozens” (Calvert, “‘Undutiful Boy,’” 101) to “seven thousand” (Abdel-Malek, Egypt, 96).
Qutb was charged: Hannonen, “Egyptian Islamic Discourse,” 43.
high fever: Moussalli, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, 34. Al-Khaledi, Sayyid Qutb: al-shaheed, 145, also mentions the use of dogs during the torture of Sayyid Qutb.
“principles of the revolution”: al-Khaledi, Sayyid Qutb: al-shaheed, 154.
planned takeover: Mitchell, Society of the Muslim Brothers, 152.
always frail: Mohammed Qutb, personal communication; Moussalli, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, 34, 62 n.
29 tuberculosis: Fouad Allam, personal interview.
29 in the prison hospital: Moussalli, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, 36.
“Mankind today”: Qutb, Milestones, 5ff.
30 government of Saudi Arabia: al-Aroosi, Muhakamat Sayyid Qutb, 80–82.
plot to overthrow: interview