The Roots of the Secular-Islamist Divide in Egypt

The Roots of the Secular-Islamist Divide in Egypt: Gamal Abdel Nasser and Sayyid Qutb are usually remembered as two sides of Egypt's most intractable political divide. But in his book Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East, Fawaz Gerges shows that the two titans of Egyptian history overlapped ideologically and personally more than is generally realized.