Bibliograph

A system of life, Mawdudi and the ideologisation of Islam, Jan-Peter Hartung

Type

Label

A system of life, Mawdudi and the ideologisation of Islam, Jan-Peter Hartung

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A system of life

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

881141558

Responsibility statement

Jan-Peter Hartung

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

Mawdudi and the ideologisation of Islam

Summary

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

Target audience

specialized

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