Sayyid Qutb was influend by Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. Whereas the latter had both religious and secular education, the former was never formally instructed by any scholar about Islam. His views of Islam wee largely shaped by his hatred of the West, especially the open expression of sexuality in the West.

Qutb's brother taught classes at a university attended by Osama bin Laden, an ethnically Yemeni born in KSA who abhorred communism. Bin Laden similarly lacked formal religious instruction under a religious scholar.

Like Qutb, bin Laden shaped his own version of Islam bases on his political viewpoints.

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