Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam by Jackson, Roy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part I The life and times of Mawdudi

1 A noble lineage (1903–19)

Mawdudi and the Mughals The Aligarh experiment Mawdudi’s early paradigms Seclusion The journalist and political activist

2 A ‘hidden power within me’ (1920–30)

The Shuddi campaign Gandhi and the Swaraj effort The Ahmadis

3 Crisis of the spirit (1930–9)

Mawdudi the scholar

Towards Understanding Islam

A spiritual crisis? Tarjuman The Darul-Islam project (1937–9)

4 The birth of a new party (1940–7)

Why the need for a party? A new party is born The Pathankot years (1942–7)

5 The Pakistan years (1947–79)

Birth pangs The politicization of the Jamaat The organization of Jamaat

Part II Mawdudi and political Islam

6 The need for ‘intellectual independence’

Mawdudi and the transhistorical Iqbal and the concept of selfhood (khudi)

7 The salafis

Ibn Taymiyya and the Wahhabis Sayyid Ahmad Khan Sayyid Jamal al-Din ‘al-Afghani’ Muhammad Abduh Rashid Rida Blame the Muslims!

8 Mawdudi’s paradigms

The first source: the Qur’an The second source: the Sunna of the Prophet The third source: the conventions of the Rashidun The fourth source: the rulings of the great jurists

9 Theo-democracy (or divine government?)

Muslims Women Non-Muslims Striking a balance

10 Jihad and the permanent revolution

Other historical precedents? Ideology versus human will Mawdudi on jihad

11 Mawdudi’s legacy

The Bhutto years (1971–7) The Zia regime The Jamaat’s shift from ideological movement to political pragmatism: a reflection of Mawdudi’s own dilemma Mirrors of Jamaat Endnote

Notes Bibliography

Abbreviations Books and pamphlets by Mawdudi Books Articles cited Newspapers and magazines Websites

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