RT Article
T1 Ideas that travel: the influence of Abu al-A‘la al-Mawdudi on the political thought of two contemporary Arab Islamists: Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Sayyid Qutb
JF Politics, religion & ideology
VO 24
IS 3
SP 377
OP 397
A1 Baroudi, Sami E.
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1873009631
AB This article examines the influence of the renowned Indo-Pakistani thinker and activist Abu al-A‘la al-Mawdudi (1903-1979) on the political thought of two contemporary Arab Islamist thinkers: Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi (1926-) and Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966). In his extensive discourse on politics, Mawdudi resurrected and popularized two intersecting notions: the Islamic state and God's sovereignty (hakimiyyat Allah, or hakimiyya). Borrowing these two pivotal Islamist notions from Mawdudi, Qaradawi and Qutb utilized them to construct contending perspectives on politics and society in majority-Muslim states. The article argues that the divergent views of Qaradawi and Qutb can be attributed, at least in part, to the fluidity of Mawdudi’s notions of the Islamic state and hakimiyya, and their pliability to different interpretations. This fluidity helps explain the different stances of Qaradawi and Qutb on whether, or not, hakimiyya is compatible with popular sovereignty and democracy. Furthermore, the article underscores the cross-fertilization of ideas between the Arab and non-Arab (in this case South Asian) parts of the Islamic World.
K1 Umma
K1 popular sovereignty
K1 Democracy
K1 Political Islam
K1 hakimiyya
K1 Islamic State
K1 Qutb
K1 Qaradawi
K1 Mawdudi
DO 10.1080/21567689.2023.2277460