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The Sovereignty of God in Modern Islamic Thought

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2015-07, Vol.25 (3), p.389-418 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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The Sovereignty of God in Modern Islamic Thought
Author: ZAMAN, MUHAMMAD QASIM
Subjects: 1900-1999 ; 20th century ; 21st century ; Asian history ; God ; Gods ; Islam ; Islamic tradition ; Islamism ; Koran ; Muslim writers ; Muslims ; Political power ; political theory ; Politics ; prose ; Qutb, Sayyid (1906-1966) ; Religious thought ; source study ; South Asia ; South Asian literature ; Sovereignty ; Theology ; Uru language literature
Is Part Of: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2015-07, Vol.25 (3), p.389-418
Description: The sovereignty of God and related ideas have had a prominent place in Islamist discourses. Key figures like Mawdudi of Pakistan and Qutb of Egypt have argued that anything less than exclusive submission to God's law, and all that it necessitates in religious and political terms, is idolatry. Yet the idea of the sovereignty of God has been invoked by many more people than the Islamists, and it has meant quite different things in different quarters. Focusing on South Asia, this paper seeks to shed some new light on the provenance of this idea, on how and to what purpose it has been deployed in religious and political argument, and what the debates on it might tell us about rival conceptions of Islam.
Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1356-1863
EISSN: 2051-2066
EISSN: 1474-0591
DOI: 10.1017/S1356186315000164
Source: ProQuest Central

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