Musha, Egypt
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Musha ({{langx|ar|موشا}}, from {{Langx|cop|ⲡⲙⲟⲩϣⲉ|lit=repository}}{{Cite web |last=Peust |first=Carsten |title=Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten |url=http://www.peust.de/ortsnamen_original.pdf |page=36}}) is a village in the Asyut Governorate, Egypt.
It is the birthplace of the author and Islamist Sayyid Qutb.[https://web.archive.org/web/20020522160829/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/154cwiuw.asp] Weekly Standard Osama's Brain: Meet Sayyid Qutb, intellectual father of the anti-Western jihad. BY Dinesh D'Souza. April 29, 2002, Vol. 7, No. 32[http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5830832/The-radical-philosopher-being-a.html] Publication: Canada and the World Backgrounder
Publication Date: 01-SEP-06 Review of Jessica Stern's Terror in the Name of God The [http://digitalcollections.aucegypt.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15795coll12 Nicholas S. Hopkins Collection] includes photographs of Musha from the 1980s.
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