معركتنا مع اليهود
Our Struggle with the Jewsby Sayyid Qutb

This evidence record prepares the complete text of Sayyid Qutb's posthumous collection معركتنا مع اليهود Maʿrakatunā maʿa al-Yahūd (Our Struggle with the Jews) as printed in the twelfth Dār al-Shurūq edition of 1413 AH/1993 CE. The nine collected texts occupy printed pages 5-65, corresponding to PDF images 7-67. The publication-history article explains why this later edition cannot establish the unresolved 1969/1970 first-edition date.¹

The Arabic page layers have been collated page by page against the controlling facsimile. Original spelling and wording are retained; recognition errors have been corrected, page numbers have been omitted from the work text, and ornaments are represented as ` *`. The seven publication lines and thirteen notes supplied by the later compiler are separated visibly from Qutb's text. The one note inherited with the Al-Quran commentary excerpt is identified as authorial. The Argos machine-English draft remains in the private work area as a navigation aid. It is excluded from the package and will not supply the fresh TJD translation.

The controlling witness is the 1993 Dār al-Shurūq facsimile; it does not establish the first-edition date.

| Order | Collected text | Printed pages | Date printed by the later editor | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | O Fedayeen, Continue on Your Path | 5-8 | 20 November 1951 | | 2 | What Have You Done for the Heroes of Palestine? | 9-14 | 25 September 1953 | | 3 | A Race toward Sacrifice and Redemption | 15-19 | 13 November 1951 | | 4 | Our Struggle with the Jews | 20-38 | No date printed | | 5 | Islam Is a Social System, Not a Talisman | 39-42 | 15 April 1952 | | 6 | The Reality of the Islamic Bloc | 43-46 | 22 April 1952 | | 7 | Let Us Know Who We Are | 47-50 | 24 March 1953 | | 8 | Where Is the Path? | 51-55 | 27 November 1951 | | 9 | To Those Reluctant about Jihad | 56-65 | No date printed |

Images 1-6 contain the cover, half-title, title page and edition/imprint matter. Image 68 contains the table of contents; images 69-76 are publisher advertisements. Those leaves are preserved in the facsimile and described in the evidence sidecar, but they are not Qutb's nine-text body.

All 61 Arabic page layers have been split from the collated source and reconciled with their printed-page and PDF-image assignments. The page apparatus keeps Qutb's words, the later compiler's provenance claims and notes, and the inherited authorial note separate.

Levi explicitly approved fair-use publication of the collated Arabic page layers, fresh TJD English, apparatus and edition description after editorial completion. The facsimile, provider OCR, vision OCR, Argos machine translation, source photographs, private Research assets, comparison-witness files and images, and unavailable witnesses remain excluded.

Zayn al-Abidin al-Rikabi assembled the collection after Qutb's death. The first Saudi edition reportedly contained al-Rikabi's introduction and thirteen notes. Dār al-Shurūq removed the introduction in 1978 but retained the notes, including appeals to the fabricated Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The 1993 witness therefore does not contain an editor's introduction, but it is not an unmediated authorial book.²

The 1993 witness contains exactly thirteen later compiler notes. Several are securely non-authorial because they refer to the June 1967 war or measure time from Qutb's death; four reproduce quotations from the fabricated Protocols, three extended and one brief. Seven separate date-and-venue lines identify appearances in al-Daʿwa. These twenty interventions are retained but labeled as the later compiler's voice. Printed page 57 contains a different note, Tabuk, inherited with Qutb's Al-Quran commentary excerpt and therefore retained as an authorial note.³

The fourth component reproduces or revises Qutb's commentary around Al-Quran 2:75 and 5:82; the ninth is excerpted from his commentary on Al-Quran 9:38-41. The other seven items carry later compiler-supplied al-Daʿwa dates. Those seven claimed periodical issues remain unavailable, so their printed dates are still witness claims rather than independently collated publication records. The removed first-edition introduction and the first Saudi edition also remain unavailable.⁴

Seven comparison witnesses now remain retained in the research archive rather than duplicating them inside this package. `witnesses.tsv` records each repository path, byte count, PDF extent, role, limitation and SHA-256 digest.

| Witness | What it permits TJD to test | What it cannot establish | | --- | --- | --- | | July 1952 al-Muslimūn installment | The serialized Al-Quran 2:75 commentary before the later title passage | An exact civil release day or the wording of later revisions | | Early Fī Ẓilāl parts 1-6 | Pre-prison-revision wording; first-edition states for parts 2-6 | A complete thirty-part first edition; part 1 is a second edition | | Final authorized Arabic Fī Ẓilāl | Mature wording around Al-Quran 2:75-82, 5:51, 5:82 and 9:38-41 | When each revision first appeared | | Later part-ten Arabic extract | The commentary source selected and compressed as To Those Reluctant about Jihad | The 1953 first-edition wording or exact fascicle date | | English volumes 1 and 8 | Paginated access to the revised Al-Quran 2 and Al-Quran 9 loci | Independent evidence for Arabic wording or chronology | | Alternate 1993 P-TIFF scan | Independent confirmation of the controlling edition's statement, sequence and contents | The 1969/1970 first Saudi edition or its removed introduction |

The resulting boundary is precise. Component four can now be compared across the July 1952 serialization, the mixed early fascicle binding, the final Arabic text and English volume 1. Component nine can be compared with the final Arabic text, the retained later part-ten extract and English volume 8. What remains missing is not Fī Ẓilāl generally, but the seven specific al-Daʿwa issues, the original first-edition part-ten fascicle, the physical 1960 revised edition and the first Saudi collection.