Sayyid Qutb Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Sayyid Qutb? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Sayyid Qutb from Modern Classical and what is the personality traits.
INTJ (XwX)
Sayyid Qutb personality type is INTJ, not INTP.
The same holds true for the MBTI type of Sayyid Qutb's wife, Khadija, who was an INFP.
The two most important points about this topic are:
1. Sayyid Qutb was not an INTP. He was an INTJ.
2. The MBTI theory of type is based on Jungian theory of psychological type.
Jung-based psychological type theory is not the same as Jung's cognitive functions theory.
When you look at his writings, it is clear that he was influenced by the ideas of the INTJ cognitive functions theory developed by David Keirsey.
The MBTI type of Sayyid Qutb was based on Keirsey's ESTP type.
More about Sayyid Qutb's type from Wikipedia:
Sayyid Qutb was a political theorist, writer, and Islamist who influenced many Islamist movements, a great number of which were later established by his former students and colleagues. He was a leading ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood and a major figure in the Muslim Brotherhood during its years in Egypt.
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb, known popularly as Sayyid Qutb, was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s.
