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Title: The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'At-I Islami of Pakistan (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, Vol 19) by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr ISBN: 0-520-08369-5 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution
Comment: With the exception of the much-studied Muslim Brethren of Egypt, few fundamentalist Islamic groups have been subjected to book-length investigations in English. And if any one deserves such attention, it's the Jama'at-i Islami (Islamic Party) of Pakistan, founded in 1941 by Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi (1903-79). Nasr, professor of political science at the University of San Diego, does his important subject justice in an excellent history of the founder and of his movement.
Throughout its existence, the Jama'at-i Islami has suffered from a tension between an intention to create a holy community of the righteous and the (frustrated) desire to attain power through the political process. Mawdudi himself bounced from one unattainable goal to another: in the mid-1930s he rejected the Pakistan movement, arguing that Muslims should seek to rule the whole of India. By 1940 he accepted the inevitability of a Pakistan and began a decades-long effort to dominate that state.
All that's missing from Nasr's fine study is a consideration of Mawdudi's profound influence on the fundamentalist movement outside Pakistan, and specifically on Ayatollah Khomeini; in other words, how exactly was the Jama'at-i Islami "the vanguard of the Islamic Revolution"? That's such an important and large subject, it's surely worthy of another volume by the same author.
Middle East Quarterly, December 1994
Rating: 5
Summary: Fundamentalism explained
Comment: A superb analysis of the causes of Islamic fundamentalism. Also has much about Pakistan politics. A must read. Readable and erudite.
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Title: Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr ISBN: 0195096959 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World by R. Scott Appleby, Emmanuel Sivan, Gabriel Abraham Almond ISBN: 0226014983 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Wahhabism: A Critical Essay by Hamid Algar ISBN: 188999913X Publisher: Islamic Publications International Pub. Date: 10 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke ISBN: 0743260244 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 22 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken ISBN: 0525947647 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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