/lit/ - Literature

Drop your recs. I love the detail and research put into
A lot of them, which often gives more of a feeling of being there than even novels written in the respective period

What’s the consensus on the Christian philosopher Roger Scruton’s rebuttal of Sayyid Qutb?l


>many people identified themselves primarily in religious rather than national terms. Hassan al-Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, told his followers that bringing together the world's Muslims in a supra-national Islamic State, a Caliphate, should be a top priority.

>By contrast Europeans are more inclined to define ourselves in national terms. In any conflict it is the nation that must be defended. And if God once ordered otherwise, then it is time he changed his mind. Such an idea is anathema to Islam, which is based on the belief that God has laid down an eternal law and it is up to us to submit to it: that is what the word Islam means: submission.

>The Muslim Brotherhood has always sought to be a mass movement, seeking to establish itself by popular support. But its most influential leader, Sayyid Qutb, denounced the whole idea of the secular state as a kind of blasphemy, an attempt to usurp the will of God by passing laws that have a merely human authority.

>When God makes the laws, the laws become as mysterious as God is. When we make the laws, and make them for our purposes, we can be certain what they mean. The only question then is "who are we?" What way of defining ourselves reconciles democratic elections with real opposition and individual rights? That, to my mind, is the most important question facing the West today.

I know this board likes to hate on trad writers like Roger Scruton and John Milbank but honestly how many other guys are making a real effort to defend western values from Islam which at this point is almost the complete opposite? Even Peter Hitchens is caving

What are some books that depict women as cruel especially to each other? I mean like Lord of the Flies but for girls