AKIDAH SAYYID QUTB (1906-1966) DAN PENAFSIRAN SASTRAWI TERHADAP AL-QUR’AN
ABSTRACT: This article
discusses the ideology of Sayyid Qutb and how this ideology has influenced his
approach to the Qur’an. Although, in the beginning of his life he saw the
Qur’an as the literary text and hence the literary approach to the Qur’an is
the preferred approach, in his later life – when he became Islamist – he
revised this approach and treat the Qur’an as a political document. Because of
this political interpretation of the Qur’an, his tafsir Fi Zilal al-Qur’an has
influenced many radical groups in Egypt and other countries. The primary
sources of this article are Sayyid Qutb’s works, especially al-Taswir al-Fanni
fi alQur’an, Masyahid al-Qiyamah fi al-Qur’an, and Fi Zilal al-Qur’an. These
works are read chronologically and historically to see the development of
Qutb’s thought and the shifting of his ideology. Thus, the knowledge of the
social-historical and political context of Egypt is important to determine its
influence to Qutb and vice versa. Finally, this article concludes that Qutb’s
literary approach to the Qur’an has been transformed into ideological and
political approach. This shifting is due to the changing of Sayyid’s Qutb
worldview, from a secular Muslim to be an ideological one. Furthermore, at the
end of his life, he became a theoretical ideological Islamist.
Penulis: Yusuf Rahman
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd110268
