Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: The Life and Times of Mawdudi 1. A Noble Lineage. 1903-1919 2. ‘A hidden power within me’, 1920-1930 3. Crisis of the Spirit, 1930-1939 4. The Birth of a New Party, 1940-1947 5. The Pakistan Years, 1947-1979 Part 2: Mawdudi and Political Islam 6. The Need for ‘Intellectual Independence’ 7. The Salafiyyah 8. Mawdudi’s Paradigms: The Four Sources of His Islamic Constitution 9. Theo-Democracy (or Divine Government?) 10. Jihad and the Permanent Revolution 11. Mawdudi’s Legacy

About the Author

Roy Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Gloucestershire with a research interest in the interaction between religion, ethics, and philosophy, with particular emphasis on Islam. He is the author of Fifty Key Figures in Islam (2006), and Nietzsche and Islam (2007), both published by Routledge.