HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Osama Bin Laden, Sayyid Qutb, Arab Spring

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1111
• Professor: Thomas Boogaart

Document Summary

Since the storming of the us embassy in iran in 1979, the west has developed an obsession with what we have de ned as radical islam. After wwii qutb comes to the us and he essentially experiences culture shock. From the perspective of a conservative egyptian, american society is hopelessly corrupt. A local pastor invited him to a social event in the church and he saw american teenagers dancing. But from his perspective, this contact between the sexes in a church basement galvanized in his mind the absolute separation between islamic society and the west. Qutb would eventually write the milestones tract that would become the guidebook for global jihadism. Radicalization is a trend towards fundamentalism that is observable in the islam world. From the perspective of muslims ins the 1970s, they were experiencing the. In exploring the faces of globalization we explored the non-economic repercussions of global integration following the 1995 establishment of the wto.