Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-263) and index.
Contents
From One Ordeal to Another: 1954-66 -- In the Beginning Were the Camps -- The 1965 'Plot' -- 'Signposts' -- Sayyid Qutb, Author and Martyr -- Islamicism or Barbarism -- What Is to Be Done? -- The Ulema Intervene -- Works of Sayyid Qutb -- The Society of Muslims -- And God Came to Shukri -- The New Hegira -- Living Together in the Prophet's Way -- Death of One of the Ulema -- 'Al-Da'wa': Legalists Despite Themselves -- The Purse-Strings -- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- Making Good Use of Parliament -- The Vanguard of the 'Umma' -- The Student Revolt -- The 'University of Large Numbers' -- In the Shadow of the Regime -- Changer la Vie -- How to Be a Good Muslim -- For the Good of the Copts -- June 1981: Checkmate -- The Sermons of Sheikh Kishk -- A Sheikh's Childhood -- The Friday Sermon -- To Assassinate Pharaoh -- The Modern Tartars -- Holy War Against the Infidels -- Carrying Out God's Orders -- Killing Christians -- To Assassinate Pharaoh -- The Religious and the Political -- Is the Islamicist Movement Inevitable? -- Facets of a Utopia -- Afterword: Ebb and Flow, 1981-1985 -- The Carrot and the Stick -- Depoliticizing Islam -- Electoral Strategies -- Modes of Preaching.