A system of life : Mawdudi and the ideologisation of Islam
Hartung, Jan-PeterAuthor
Hartung, Jan-Peter.Author
While much current research on political Islam revolves around militant Islamism, the genesis of this ideology remains minimally understood. This book presents an examination of the earliest attempt at a systematic outline of Islamist ideology, namely that proposed in the 1930s and early 1940s by the renowned Indo-Muslim intellectual Sayyid Abu'l-A'la Mawdudi. The book reconstructs its argument in the light of the competing ideologies at play at the time, especially its claim to recast Islam as an all-comprehensive, self-contained, and inner-worldly system of life.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
While much current research on political Islam revolves around militant Islamism, the genesis of this ideology remains minimally understood. This book presents an examination of the earliest attempt at a systematic outline of Islamist ideology, namely that proposed in the 1930s and early 1940s by the renowned Indo-Muslim intellectual Sayyid Abu'l-A'la Mawdudi. The book reconstructs its argument in the light of the competing ideologies at play at the time, especially its claim to recast Islam as an all-comprehensive, self-contained, and inner-worldly system of life.
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Maudoodi, Syed Abul ʻAla, 1903-1979.
Islam
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Islam