 Sadat's assassination, October 1981  Sayed Qotb; Sayed Imam El-Sharif 'The jihadist groups in Egypt generated a body of literature upon which to base their insurrectionist ideology. In building their theological and jurisprudential ideological arsenal they looked beyond the intellectual legacies of Abul-Ela Al-Mawdudi and Sayed Qotb to more recent contributions by Saleh Sariya, Mohamed Abdel-Salam Farag and Sayed Imam El-Sharif'  Jihadist Abboud El-Zomor during trial for the assassination of Sadat  Abdel-Salam Farag 'The radical Islamist movement in Egypt, in all its organised manifestations, built its legitimacy upon its opposition not only to the regime but to the modern state itself. It presented its legitimacy as a rival to that of the state, and it sustained this even at its weakest moments' parent page (28 May - 3 June 2009, issue #949) |