Philosophical and Worldview Grounds of Political Islam of India and Pakistan
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2020-16-1-127-146
Abstract
The history of the Muslim world confirms the universality of the mutual interaction of existence and consciousness. Since the nineteenth century, the main challenges of the time have required from the umma mobilization and joint unification, initially in the name of liberation from colonialism and later — from the negative effects of globalization. Hence the natural and justifiable emergence of what can be called political Islam. The article is devoted to Muslim thinkers who had the greatest influence on public consciousness in India before and after its partition (1947) into India and Pakistan. The central figure in the Muslim enlightenment movement of India was Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817–1898). No one has fully presented the philosophical foundations of reformation than the eminent poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) in his “The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam”. Diametrically opposite to reformation stand was taken by Abul Ala Maududi (1903–1979), the founder and the leader of Jamaat-i-Islami, justified Muslim "fundamentalism". The intercultural philosophical position was implemented by Muhammad Sharif (1893–1965), a recognized authority among Muslim philosophers of India and Pakistan.
About the Author
M. T. Stepanyants
Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Marietta T. STEPANYANTS, Dr. Sci. (Philos.), Full Professor, Honoured Scholar of the Russian Federation, main researcher
Bld. 1, 12, Goncharnaya str., Moscow, 109240
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Stepanyants M.T. Philosophical and Worldview Grounds of Political Islam of India and Pakistan. Islam in the modern world. 2020;16(1):127-146. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2020-16-1-127-146
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