ISLAM AND NATIONALISM: An Analysis ,0f the views of Azad, Iqbal and Maududi

Present day world is echoing with the slogan of a New IVorld order. Mlill this New World order main- tain the existing Nation-State system or will demolish it’? Did the emergence of Nationalism prove life-fitrther- ing or life-destroying? We have already observed that it had demolished the last remanants of the christendom in the West. ‘Ille paralysing consequences of this theory arc more obvious and deeper in the Muslim World. It swallowed up the last semblance of the Unity of the Muslim World. Therefore it is argued that the theory of Nationalisnl and Nation-State are just antithetical to the universalism of Islamic ideology and its conception of Islamic Ummall. rc present work is a critical examination of the responses of Muslim Scholars and activists of Indian Sub-Continent on Nationalism. The views of three great scholars and activists like Muhammad Iqbal, Maulana Abu] Kalam Azad and Maulana Sayyid Abu] Ala Maududi are explored and analysed in the light of the Quran and Sunnah. es thought provoking book is an access to the con- temporary Islamic thought. Both, students and scholars interested in understanding Nationalism aild contemporary Islamic thought will enjoy the reading of this book.

• AUTHUR: DR. ZEENAT KAUSAR PUBLISHED:
• BY INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA