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Author Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza, 1960-

Title Mawdudi and the making of Islamic revivalism / Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents Note on Transliteration and References; Introduction; I. The Mujaddid from Hyderabad; II. Islam Reinterpreted; Appendix: Mawdudi's Poetry; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary Nasr examines the life and thought of Mawlana Mawdudi, one of the first and most important Islamic ideological thinkers. Mawdudi was the first to develop a modern political Islamic ideology, and a plan for social action to realize his vision. The prolific writings and indefatigable efforts of Mawdudi's party, the Jamaat-i-Islami, first in India and later in Pakistan, have disseminated his ideas far and wide. His views have informed revivalism from Morocco to Malaysia. Nasr discerns the events that led Mawdudi to a revivalist perspective, and probes the structure of his thought, in order to gain fresh insights into the origins of Islamic revivalism. He argues that Islamic revivalism did not simply develop as a cultural rejection of the West, rather it was closely tied to questions of communal politics and its impact on identity formation, discourse of power in plural societies, and nationalism. Mawdudi's discourse, though aimed at the West, was motivated by Muslim-Hindu competition for power in British India.; His aim, according to Nasr, was to put forth a view of Islam whose invigorated, pristine, and uncompromising outlook would galvanize Muslims into an ideologically uniform and hence politically indivisible community. In time, this view developed a life of its own and evolved into an all-encompassing perspective on society and politics, and has been a notable force in South Asia and Muslim life and thought across the Muslim world
Analysis Islam Role of Politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Maudoodi, Syed Abul ʻAla, 1903-1979.
SUBJECT Maudoodi, Syed Abul ʻAla, 1903-1979 fast
Subject Jamāʻat-i Islāmī-yi Pākistān -- Biography
SUBJECT Jamāʻat-i Islāmī-yi Pākistān fast
Subject Muslims -- India -- Biography
Muslims -- Pakistan -- Biography
Muslims
Opwekkingsbewegingen.
Islam.
India
Pakistan
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 95000201
ISBN 142940664X
9781429406642
1280528087
9781280528088
9780195357110
0195357116
9786610528080
661052808X