- Hardcover: 232 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (6 Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195096959
- ISBN-13: 978-0195096958
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.2 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,296,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
"Beyond its contribution to a fuller and more nuanced interpretation of Mawdudi, Nasr's readable and carefully researched work raises important questions regarding the conventional Western interpretation of revivalist Islam....Highly recommended to all academic libraries and to public libraries concerned with the contemporary interaction of religion and politics."--Choice
"Thanks to impeccable scholarship of Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr and his splendid research, we now have a full-fledged account of Mawlana Mawdudi's lifetime undertaking of a reading of Islam compatible with the political and cultural imperatives of a colonized society. Nasr has produced a crucial text that considerably expands our understanding of the political circumstatnces under which contemporary versions of Islam are produced."--American Journal of Sociology
"This volume is likely to become the classic source for information and analysis with reference to the life of Mawlana Mawdudi. Nasr provides much materi
Product Description
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.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.co.uk.
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
4 reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The Best Book on the Subject
28 Sep 2009
Format:Hardcover
Mawdudi is one of the most important Islamic fundamentalist thinkers. Nasr's well-researched scholarly book is the most detailed analysis of his life and thought. It is dense to read but it does lay out everything Mawudi was about, and there is much here to show how and why fundamentalism developed. Nasr presents a particular view of rise of Islamic fundamentalism as product of partition of India in 1947 and that is interesting. All said a must read for anyone interested in Islamic fundamentalism's history and ideas.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
An introduction to Mawdudi and his political though.
27 July 2010
Format:Hardcover
This is a reasonably consise introduction to Mawdudi and his relationship with and thought on political Islam. It begins with a brief biography, and the structure is biographical, but focuses mainly on the interaction between Mawdudi, the historical events which were occurring during his lifetime, and their effect and relationship with the growth and development of his theories of political Islam. It is not an in depth study of Mawdudi himself (eg. a pure biography), nor does it devote much time to his work in other areas such as Islamic history, general Islamic Jurisprudence, etc. I found the text clearly written, but fairly dense. To understand the book clearly requires some preceeding knowlege of Islam and the history of India and the partition. (It would not be the first book to read on Islam or political Islam.) It is well referenced for further reading, but many of the sources Nasr draws on are not readily availible in the US (at least the ones I tried to find). Overall, a fine introduction to Mawdudi and the growth of his political theories.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism.
26 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
Nasr makes large claims for his biographee, Sayyid Abul-Ala Mawdudi (1903-79), founder of the fundamentalist Jamaat-i Islami (JI) organization, deeming him without doubt the most influential of contemporary Islamic revivalist thinkers. And he says the JIabout which he wrote an earlier companion volume, The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution -- influenced Islamic revivalism from Morocco to Malaysia and controlled the expression of revivalist thinking in Southwest Asia and South Asia since 1941. Large claims, to be sure, but Nasr easily shows just how consequential the man and his movement have been.
Nasr has written a most sophisticated analysis; perhaps its key has to do with Mawdudis complex mix of the Islamic and the Western. Typical was his notion of an Islamic state, which drew in large part on Western notions: His debate with Western political thought was antagonistic, but it also assimilated Western ideas into his interpretation of Islam and the Islamic state. More broadly, he sought to transform Islam by making it more operational: Mawdudi called Muslims back to Islam but to an Islam that was rationalized and streamlined so that its social expression would be able to support a viable political order.
Though himself frustrated in the pursuit of power, Mawdudis ideas provided much of the means by which Khomeini did ride to power, and that many other fundamentalists are still using in their challenge to the state.
Middle East Quarterly, June 1996
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
- Books > Biography > Political > Countries & Regions > Indian Subcontinent
- Books > Biography > Political > United States
- Books > Biography > Religious > Islam
- Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Studies
- Books > Religion & Spirituality > Islam
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Academic Sociology
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Government & Politics > Political Science & Ideology > Political Science
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Multicultural Studies > Islamic Studies
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Sociology
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
