Milestones: Introduction

The introduction to Sayyid Qutb's Milestones is an interesting transition from the Qur'an commentary. The introduction definitely starts as sort of "call to action" in response to the lack of values of humanity. As he says "the turn of the Islam and the Muslim community has arrived," he is clearly calling for a specific call to action that is more direct than his past writings.

Milestones also has a more fundamentalist tone to it - Qutb uses phrases like "it is neccessary that the Muslim community be restored to its original form" that call for a return to a more traditional and fundamentalist form of Islam.

I thought it was interesting that the last part of the introduction discussed that the first few chapters stem from the Qur'an commentary, but were reworked for Milestones.