Milestones (book)
1964 book by Sayyid Qutb / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maʿālim fī aṭ Ṭarīq, also Ma'alim fi'l-tareeq, (Arabic: معالم في الطريق, romanized: ma‘ālim fī t-tarīq) or Milestones, first published in 1964, is a short book written by the influential Egyptian Islamist author Sayyid Qutb,[1] in which he makes a call to action and lays out a plan to re-create the "extinct" Muslim world on (what he believes to be) strictly Quranic grounds, casting off what he calls Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance).[2][3][4]
Author | Sayyid Qutb |
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Original title | Ma'alim fi al-Tariq |
Country | Egypt |
Language | Arabic |
Publisher | Kazi Publications |
Publication date | 1964 |
Media type | Paperback |
ISBN | 1-56744-494-6 |
OCLC | 55100829 |
Ma'alim fi al-Tariq has been called "one of the most influential works in Arabic of the last half century".[5] It is probably Qutb's most famous and influential work and one of the most influential Islamist tracts written. It has also become a manifesto for the ideology of "Qutbism".[3] Commentators have both praised Milestones as a ground-breaking, inspirational work by a hero and a martyr,[3] and reviled it as a prime example of unreasoning entitlement, self-pity, paranoia, and hatred that has been a major influence on Islamist terrorism.[6]
English translations of the book are usually entitled simply "Milestones" (the book is also sometimes referred to in English as "Signposts"). The title Ma'alim fi al-Tariq translates into English as "Milestones Along the Way", "Signposts on the Road", or different combinations thereof.