On Sociological Polytheism: Reading Crisis in Sayyid Qutb    &quot; [Sayyid Qutb's] work operates squarely under the assumption that the state of the Muslim umma is in desperate need of revival. He sought to address how this came to be and suggest ways to actualize an alternative future. Central to this project was his reconceptualization and rearticulation of the long-established term  jāhiliyya . The following discussion will take Qutb’s conception of  jāhiliyya  as its point of departure in examining how he grappled with his perception of the larger epistemological crisis facing the Muslim world.&quot;