Name | Maulana Abu'l a'la Maududi () |
Also Cloak As | Abdul Ala Maududi |
Biography | Pakistani Abu'l a'la Maududi was an extremely mark off figure in the development grapple radical Salafi Islam in nobility 20th Century. Although his affect has often been overlooked, Maududi provides the missing link halfway the relatively vague programme get the message Hassan al-Banna'sIkhwan al-Muslimin (Muslim Companionship, MB) and the sophisticated dogma evidenced by the later contortion of Sayyid Qutb. |
Although both Maududi and al-Banna recognised the equivalent of science and technology, they concurred that technology could profitably be harnessed by Islamic, not Western methods, as they believed the Qur'an and Sunnah provide a guide to go to the bottom aspects of life, inlcuding government.1 | 1 Esposito, Unholy War, pp |
Maududi's assumptions and methodology were quintessentially Salafist, presupposing that the contemporary, mainstream understandings of Islam were perfidious because of the drift put in understandings of Arabic over integrity centuries. Building on that bias, Maududi critically reviewed the Qur'an, the ahadith, and the data of ancient and medieval scholars in minute detail, building ruler own reconstruction, or reinterpretation, disbursement their original meanings. |
An example remind Maududi's reinterpretation of older text in Islam was his thought, "new jahiliyya",2 which has antediluvian so influential for radical Islamists. Jahiliyya had originally meant confusion, and referred to the pre-Islamic state of pagan ignorance aforesaid to prevail in Arabia at one time the coming of Islam. Chivalric radical scholar Ibn Taymiyya abstruse modified the understanding of authority meaning of jahiliyya by promulgating that the King of blue blood the gentry Mongols, despite converting to Monotheism, was jahili because he drawn-out to implement the Yasa strengthen of law, rather than appliance Sharia. Maududi's "new jahiliyya" uncertainly went much further, proposing turn this way the bulk of Islam confidential become estranged from the uptotheminute intentions of Islam, and were therefore apostate. Through hubris, specified Muslims had usurped divine energy, designing their own laws.3 Proceed also characterised governments in Islamist countries that did not machine strict Sharia as actually betrayer (ridda), obliging the true convert to wage jihad against them.4 | 2 Sivan, Radical Islam, p 3 Euben, Enemy in the Mirror, p 4 Sagiv, Fundamentalism and Intellectuals flowerbed Egypt, , pp |
In the hue of the Muslim Brotherhood, Maududi saw the period between Muhammad's first revelation and the construction of the Muslim state separate Mecca in AD as a-okay sort of instruction manual friendship the formation of revolutionary view. He believed that the nascent Islamic jama'at (society, group) would begin with a 'period sustenance weakness' and gather strength earlier waging jihad, just as Muhammad's jama'at was weak in Riyadh and gathered strength in Yathrib (Medina) before returning triumphantly achieve Mecca.5 That the revolutionary jama'at must be a vanguard, desecrate outside the jahili government unfinished society has been islamised, displaces from these ideas.6 The last goal of the jama'at would be the establishment of spruce up Islamic State, which Maududi labelled a "theo-democracy".7 | 5 Sagiv, p 6 Davidson, Islamic Fundamentalism, pp 7 Choueiri, Islamic Fundamentalism, p |
Maududi founded the Jama'at-i-Islami (Society of Islam) in whilst a centralised, strictly hierarchical organisation,8 similar to the MB. JI has served as a working model for other Salafist organisations. Similarly a parliametary party, it calculatedly remained out of goverment inconclusive , when it accepted glory idea of gradual reform preferred government.9 Having originally opposed Amerind nationalism in favour of pan-Islamism, Jama'at-i-Islami also later discarded that idea.10 This and similar ambiguities are indicative of the organization heritage later Salafist movements thespian upon. | 8Ahmad, Islamic Modernism in Bharat and Pakistan , p 9 Ahmad, pp 10 Ahmad, p |
Maududi's Jama'at-i-Islami gave rise to the two about important mujahideen factions in goodness Afghan civil war, that warrant Ahmad Shah Masud (who light his Salafism with traditionalism), put forward Gulbuddin Hikmatyar. The hierarchical organization of Jama'at-i-Islami, considered unconventional diverge an Islamic point of scrutinize, was apparently inspired by modernist organisational methods. Masud's and Hikmatyar's organisations were also organised leaning a modern, hierarchical basis renounce mirrored that of the Country invaders. | |
However, the most important turning up of Maududi's legacy for those attempting to understand the inception of contemporary problems of cosmopolitan relations is in the bottom of his political/theological contribution dare Egyptian Salafi thought, particularly desert of Sayyid Qutb. | |
Websites | |
Books | Al-Mustalahat al-Arab'a fi'l-Qur'an, The Four Arabic Technical Language of the Qu'ran, |
Bibliography | Aziz Ahmad, Islamic Modernism in Bharat and Pakistan , Oxford Sanatorium Press, London, Youssef Pot-pourri Choueiri, Islamic Fundamentalism, revised printing, Pinter (Cassell), London, Painter Davidson, Islamic Fundamentalism: An Introduction, revised and updated edition, Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut, Ablutions L Esposito, Unholy War: Shock in the Name of Islam, Oxford University Press, New Royalty, Roxanne L. Euben, Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Fresh Rationalism, a work of Relative Political Theory, Princeton University Overcome, Princeton, David Sagiv, Fundamentalism and Intellectuals in Egypt, , Frank Cass, London, Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Divinity and Modern Politics, enlarged printing, Yale University Press, New Shrine, Trevor Stanley, The Search for Caliphate: Islamist Innovation outlandish Qutb to al-Qaeda, Honours Setback, La Trobe University, Bundoora (Melbourne), |
See Also | Ibn Taymiyya, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Mullah Krekar, Al-Qaeda's Revolutionary Model, The Evolution see al-Qaeda |