SAYYID QUTB'S 'OUR FIGHT WITH JEWS'. THE ARAB MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALIST PAMPHLET AGAINST JUDAISM AND THE JEWS IN A CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN ANTI-SEMITIC DISCOURSE

The paper deals with the famous essay by Sayyid Qutb, one of the most famous ideologues of Islamic fundamentalism and leader of the Muslim Brethren in Egypt, who was sentenced to death in 1966. Despite its rather small volume, 'Our Fight with Jews' is a really influential text, especially among the fundamentalist milieu in the Arab societies. The essay's sole purpose was to clarify Qutb's hostile attitude towards Judaism and the Jews. The Egyptian fundamentalist justifies his point using religious, historical and political arguments. Some of the historical views, figures of speech and propaganda tricks, appearing in the text, were probably borrowed from the European anti-Semitic literature. After presenting Qutb's short biography, the author researches main aspects of the aforementioned work and debates how Islamic theological background merges with the influences of European anti-Semitism.