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A System of Life - Mawdudi and the Ideologisation of Islam (Paperback)
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A System of Life - Mawdudi and the Ideologisation of Islam (Paperback)
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While much current research on political Islam revolves around
militant Islamism, the genesis of this ideology remains little
understood. A System of Life is a pioneering 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. Hartung
reconstructs his thought in the light of the competing ideologies
at play at the time, taking seriously his claim to recast Islam as
an all-comprehensive, self-contained and inner-worldly system 'of
life.' This analysis is embedded in an understanding of the history
of ideas that has assumed an increasingly global dimension in the
colonial encounter: by showing how Mawdudi has attempted to align
elements of Western philosophical thought with selected traditional
Islamic ideas and concepts, he is depicted as a major protagonist
of this development, while 'Islamism' is established as an Islamic
contribution to a universalistic notion of modernity. Besides
offering a detailed portrayal of Mawdudi's system of thought,
Hartung also discusses the reception and modification of his ideas
in the Middle East, predominantly among intellectuals of the
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and among their imitators in
postcolonial South Asia
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