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• 1 The Martyr

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• Why the title 'The Martyr'

  Because of Qutb

• How many Jews lived in New York at the time Qutb arrived?

  2 Million

• What was the title of the report by Alfred Kinsey, that Qutb referred to in his later writings to illustrate his view of Americans as little different from beasts?

  Sexual behavior in the Human male.

• What is the title of the book,that would make Qutb's reputation as an important Islamic thinker?

  Social Justice in Islam.

• 2 The Sporting Club (2.1 Ayman al-Zawahiri

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• What was the center of the Cosmopolitan community in Maadi?

  The Maadi Sporting Club 

• What is the name of Sayyid Qutb's, personal lawyer, who also was an uncle of Ayman al-Zawahiri. 

  Mahfouz Azzam.

• 2.2 We were a group of students

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• What was the name of al-Zawahiri's highschool?

  Maadi High School.

• What was the primary target of the Egyptian Islamists?

  Nasser's secular regime.

• 2.3 Nasser died

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• Nasser died in 1970 because of a?

  Heart attack

• How big was Zawahiri's underground cell in 1974.

  40 members