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Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam: Authority and the Islamic state book cover

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Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam Authority and the Islamic state

By Roy Jackson Copyright 2011
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge
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Mawlana Mawdudi was one of the most influential and important Islamic thinkers of the modern world, whose brand of political Islam has won widespread acceptance in South and South East Asia as well as the Middle East. He was not only an Islamic scholar, but also a journalist and political activist who founded the Jama’at-i-Islami, which has subsequently influenced the development of many Islamic... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: The Life and Times of Mawdudi  1. A Noble Lineage. 1903-1919  2. ‘A hidden power within me’, 1920-1930  3. Crisis of the Spirit, 1930-1939  4. The Birth of a New Party, 1940-1947  5. The Pakistan Years, 1947-1979  Part 2: Mawdudi and Political Islam  6. The Need for ‘Intellectual Independence’  7. The Salafiyyah  8. Mawdudi’s Paradigms: The Four Sources of His Islamic Constitution  9. Theo-Democracy (or Divine Government?)  10. Jihad and the Permanent Revolution  11. Mawdudi’s Legacy

Biography

Roy Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Gloucestershire with a research interest in the interaction between religion, ethics, and philosophy, with particular emphasis on Islam. He is the author of Fifty Key Figures in Islam (2006), and Nietzsche and Islam (2007), both published by Routledge.

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