Facets Of Faith – Malek Bennabi and Abul A’la Maududi

Facets OfFaith – Malek Bennabi and Abul A’la Maududi

Author: M A Sherif

Publisher: IslamicBook Trust

ISBN: 9789670526126

Year: 2018

Pages: 448pp

Price: RM65

Facets of Faith is a comparative biography of Bennabi andMaududi that interleaves two life journeys with the historical events of theday, focussing on the first half of the twentieth century. They were politicallyalert even from a young age, and this account conveys how their views tookshape, and were reshaped, the challenges and hurdles that came their way, andthe people that inspired them. It is also a story of Muslim rallying roundshared causes, whether one scholar-activist was living under French rule inAlgeria, or the other in British India. However, their thought and ideas alsoconvey the different perspectives towards understanding Islam, and in decidingthe priorities facing Muslim society, while nevertheless looking to what issacred in the religion for guidance.

This word draws on archival sources, recollections of theirstudents and also material translated from French and Urdu to English for thefirst time