Social Justice in Islam: Introduction

The introduction to this work is just as interesting as the introduction from A Child from the Village. Hamid Alger gives a more descriptive background of Qutb's history, particularly about Qutb's life after he studies in Cairo. Some of the same details emerge, such as the importance of his various writings, including Ashwak (Thorns). Here, too, Alger dicusses the involvement of Qutb's siblings in the Islamist movement, citing that his sisters were part of the Brethren for women, and were arrested at the same time Qutb was imprisoned.