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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Permissions acknowledgements | |
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| Life, context, and core ideas | |
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| Sayyid Qutb in historical context | |
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| Qutb's core ideas | |
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| Selected writings | |
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| Milestones | |
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| Prologue, from In The Shade of the Qur'an, Volume 7: Surab 8, Al-Anfal (The spoils of war) | |
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| Characteristics of the Islamic approach | |
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| The liberation of mankind | |
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| How defensive is jihad? | |
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| A stage of no fighting | |
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| What justification for jihad? | |
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| A gulf too wide! | |
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| A further point of view | |
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| Misgivings about jihad | |
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| The essence of jihad | |
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| For God's cause | |
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| Islam's revolutionary message | |
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| Characteristics of the call for an Islamic change | |
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| The need for jihad and its objective | |
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| The universal revolution | |
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| The Battle of Badr | |
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| Rejecting wise counsel | |
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| Qur'anic comments | |
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| Why believers fight | |
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| To sum up | |
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| The basis of inter-communal relations, from In The Shade of the Qur'an, Volume 8: Surab 9, Al-Tawbah (The repentance) | |
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| Overview | |
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| Peace or no peace | |
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| Under strong pressure | |
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| The nature of Islamic international relations | |
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| Crystallizing attitudes | |
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| An announcement is made | |
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| The principles of international relations | |
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| Honouring commitments | |
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| When the period of grace is over | |
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| Asylum for the enemy | |
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| No peace possible | |
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| No obligation honoured | |
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| An attitude confirmed by history | |
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| Hostility unabated | |
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| Doubts dispelled | |
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| An order to fight | |
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| Who may tend God's houses | |
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| Attitudes shaped by feelings | |
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| Reminder of a great event | |
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| Large forces avail nothing | |
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| The earth's suffocating expanse, from In The Shade of the Qur'an, Volume 8: Surab 9, Al-Tawbah (The repentance) | |
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| Overview | |
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| A very special contract | |
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| A true promise and a profitable deal | |
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| The characteristics of true believers | |
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| An example to follow | |
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| Acceptance of repentance | |
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| A turn of mercy | |
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| The hour of difficulty | |
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| The case of one honest man | |
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| Vacillating between extremes | |
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| The whole world seems too narrow | |
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| A reward for every little thing | |
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| A task akin to fighting | |
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| Uncompromising fight | |
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| Islamic war ethics | |
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| Hypocritical attitudes | |
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| The Prophet's relationship with the believers | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Religion and society in Christianity and in Islam, from Social Justice in Islam | |
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| Sorrows of the countryside, from A Child from the Village | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |