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Qutb
[ koo-tuhb ]
noun
- (in Sufism) the highest-ranking saint, the focal point of all spiritual energy.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Qutb1
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Example Sentences
Qutb, though, applied the word to the contemporary world and the state order, and especially to Islamic states and societies.
The best known was Brotherhood alumnus Sayyid Qutb, whom the Egyptian state executed in 1966.
Qutb himself did not make the Caliphate central to his thought, but his disciples saw it as the only antidote to jahiliyyah.
When they were near Chandwr, Qutb Khns people in it got out and away.
Qutb of Srwn may be the Qutb Khn of earlier mention without the cognomen.
Qutb Khn, for his part, abandoned Etwa on hearing these news, fled with a few and got away.
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