“Qutb’s emergence in 1949 as a champion of the Islamic way and his total alienation from the status quo should be seen within the context of the general public outrage at the Egyptian and Arab performance in the disastrous Palestine War.” p 62
Musallam, Adnan A. ‘Sayyid Qutb and Social Justice, 1945-1948’ in Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol 4:1, 1993, pp 52-70.