Sayyid Abul A’la Mawdoodi
Language: English | Format: PDF | Pages: 1116 | Size: 48 MB
Towards Understanding the Qur’an Abridged version is a fresh English
rendering of Tafhim al-Qur’an, Sayyid Mawdudi’s monumental and masterly
Urdu translation of the Qur’an and a selection of his commentary. Here
is a work with a difference, by a scholar of an entirely different sort.
An immense wealth of profound understanding of the Qur’an is here, a
vast treasure of knowledge and deep insight, and a valuable exposition
of some social, political, economic and legal teachings of the Qur’an.
This Tafsir answers contemporary
questions, and makes the Qur’an fully relevant to the concerns of our
day, yet it loses nothing of its timelessness nor sacrifices any of the
traditional understanding. It demonstrates the unity and coherence of
the Qur’an by centering everything in it on its message, like gems hung
on a single string. g.
Tafhim al-qur’an. Written in Urdu, and
first completed in 1973. It is of great importance for contemporary
Muslim thinking, particularly in the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan,
India, Bangladesh, Ceylon), but has also, by means of tranlation,
reached a much wider audience.
Addressed primarily to a non-Arabic
speaking audience this tafsir places great emphasis on the thorough
explanation of basic Qur’anic concepts, such as ilah} rabb, ibada and
din, and the Qur’an as a ‘book of guidance’, not least containing
guidance for a movement of Islamic re- construction and the Islamic way
of life. Numerous notes add to the usefulness of this aid to
understanding the Qur’an.
This Tafsir is particularly suitable for the young educated Muslim with no direct access to the Arabic original
‘Sayyid Abul A’la Al-Mawdudui (Maududi)
(1903-1979), one of the chief architects of contemporary Islamic
resurgence, was the an outstanding Islamic thinker and writer of his
time. He devoted his life to expound the meaning and message of Islam
and to organise a collective movement to establish the Islamic Order. In
this struggle, he had to pass through all kinds of sufferings.
Between 1948-67, he spent a total of five
years in different prisons of Pakistan. In 1953, he was also sentenced
to death by a Martial Law court for writing a ‘seditious’ pamphlet, this
sentence being later commuted to life imprisonment. In 1941, he founded
Jama’at-I Islami, of which he remained Amir, until 1972 and which is
one of the most prominent Islamic movements of our day. He authored more
than one hundred works on Islam, both scholarly and popular, and his
writings have been translated into forty languages.”
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