Title: Towards Understanding the Qur'an (Deluxe Edition)
Publisher: The Islamic Foundation
Description:
A fresh English rendering of Tafhim al-Qur'an, presented in a hard covered box with gold binding on the 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.
Mawlana Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi (1903-1979), one of the chief architects of contemporary Islamic resurgence, was the most outstanding Islamic thinker and writer of his time. He devoted his entire life to expounding the meaning and message of Islam and organizing a collective movement to establish the Islamic Order. In that struggle, he endured much suffering.
From 1948-67, he was imprisoned on four separate occasions, spending a total of five years in different prisons in Pakistan. In 1953, he was sentenced to death by a Martial Law court for writing a 'seditious' pamphlet; this verdict was later commuted to life imprisonment.
In 1941, he founded Jama'at-I Islami, one of the most prominent Islamic movements of our day, of which he remained Amir (Chief) until 1972.
He authored more than one hundred works on Islam, both scholarly and popular, and his writings have been translated into forty languages.
ISBN: 860375455
Abridged Version of Tafhim al-Qur'an (Hardcover)
Author(s): Sayyid Abul A'la MawdudiPublisher: The Islamic Foundation
Description:
A fresh English rendering of Tafhim al-Qur'an, presented in a hard covered box with gold binding on the 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.
Mawlana Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi (1903-1979), one of the chief architects of contemporary Islamic resurgence, was the most outstanding Islamic thinker and writer of his time. He devoted his entire life to expounding the meaning and message of Islam and organizing a collective movement to establish the Islamic Order. In that struggle, he endured much suffering.
From 1948-67, he was imprisoned on four separate occasions, spending a total of five years in different prisons in Pakistan. In 1953, he was sentenced to death by a Martial Law court for writing a 'seditious' pamphlet; this verdict was later commuted to life imprisonment.
In 1941, he founded Jama'at-I Islami, one of the most prominent Islamic movements of our day, of which he remained Amir (Chief) until 1972.
He authored more than one hundred works on Islam, both scholarly and popular, and his writings have been translated into forty languages.
ISBN: 860375455