List of Famous people born in Asyut, Egypt

Sayyid Qutb

First Name Sayyid

Died on August 29, 1966

Born in Egypt, Asyut Governorate, Asyut

Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb, known popularly as Sayyid Qutb, was an Egyptian author, educator, revolutionary, Islamic theorist, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging.

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Sanaa Shafei

First Name Sanaa

Born on January 25, 1943

Died on August 12, 2020 (aged 77)

Born in Egypt, Asyut Governorate, Asyut

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Muhammad Qutb

First Name Muhammad

Last Name Qutb

Born on April 26, 1919

Died on April 4, 2014 (aged 94)

Born in Egypt, Asyut Governorate, Asyut

Muhammad Qutb, was an Islamist author, scholar and teacher who is best known as the younger brother of the Egyptian Islamist thinker Sayyid Qutb. After his brother was executed by the Egyptian government, Muhammad moved to Saudi Arabia, where he promoted his brother's ideas.

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