| Qutb discovered -very early- that the major aspects of the American life were primitive and "shocking" | Crusade for Pan-Europe, New York: G |
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| Cited in , Design for Survival, New York: Coward McCann, 1964 , p 139 | Owen, John M, IV 1 November 2005 , , ForeignAffairs |
| His experience in the United States is believed to have formed in part the impetus for his rejection of Western values and his move towards Islam upon returning to Egypt | Though Islam gave him much peace and contentment, he suffered from respiratory and other health problems throughout his life, thus he never married |
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| It was during this period that Qutb wrote his first major theoretical work of religious social criticism, al-'Adala Tul-Ijtima'iyyatu Fil-Islam Social Justice in Islam , which was published in 1949, during his time overseas |
Putnam's Sons, 1943 , p 299, 305.