This article explores the political-theological nature of Sayyid Qutb’s theoretical design, specifically its relation to non-Western understandings of sovereignty, and its principal anomalies arising from the struggle of reconciling the notions of the modern state with undefined territorial imaginings of a religious community. Repudiating reformist variants of modernist Islam, Qutb’s writings afford an alternate reading of modern sovereignty as it is reconfigured in the language of hakimiyyah (God’s sovereignty). A political reading of sovereignty in Qutb complicates the assumed separation between political and non-political spheres. The argument recognizes a basic distinction between the idea of sovereignty in a theological sense and its political counterpart. In Qutb’s design, however, the absence of determinate lines between the theological and the political leaves few autonomous social spheres outside God’s law. While Qutb’s vision does not exhaust political Islam—a fairly heterodox field of diverse perspectives and commitments—the appeal of his writings remains forceful, especially under conditions of Islam’s perceived defensiveness in the face of secularist global modernity and its institutionalized forms. The article situates Qutb within the expanding repertoire of non-Western understandings of the political logic of International Relations.

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政治神学与主权：我们时代的赛义德·库特布

本文探讨了赛义德·库特布的理论设计的政治神学本质，特别是它与非西方对主权的理解的关系，以及在协调现代国家概念与宗教社区未定义的领土想象的斗争中产生的主要反常现象。Qutb 的著作驳斥了现代主义伊斯兰教的改良主义变体，提供了对现代主权的另一种解读，因为它以 hakimiyyah（上帝的主权）的语言重新配置。库特布对主权的政治解读使政治和非政治领域之间的假定分离复杂化。该论点承认神学意义上的主权概念与其政治对应物之间的基本区别。然而，在 Qutb 的设计中，神学和政治之间没有明确的界限，因此在上帝的律法之外几乎没有自治的社会领域。虽然库特布的愿景并没有穷尽政治伊斯兰教——一个具有不同观点和承诺的相当异端的领域——但他的著作的吸引力仍然很强，特别是在伊斯兰教面对世俗主义全球现代性及其制度化形式时所感知的防御性条件下。这篇文章将 Qutb 置于非西方对国际关系政治逻辑的理解不断扩大的范围内。尤其是在伊斯兰教面对世俗主义的全球现代性及其制度化形式时所感知的防御条件下。这篇文章将 Qutb 置于非西方对国际关系政治逻辑的理解不断扩大的范围内。尤其是在面对世俗主义的全球现代性及其制度化形式时，伊斯兰教认为是防御性的。这篇文章将 Qutb 置于非西方对国际关系政治逻辑的理解不断扩大的范围内。