Title: Towards Understanding the Qur'an, Vol. III
Publisher: The Islamic Foundation
Translator(s): Zafar Ishaq Ansari
Description:
Towards Understanding the Qur'an is a fresh and highly readable English rendering of Tafhim al-Qur'an, Sayyid Mawdudi's monumental and masterly Urdu translation and commentary. Here is a Tafsir with a difference, by a scholar of an entirely different sort. An immense wealth of profound understanding of the Qur'an is here, so is a vast treasure of knowledge and deep insights, illuminating historical accounts and philological discussions, and a highly systematic exposition of social, political, economic and legal teachings.
However, what makes this Tafsir unique is that it translates the Qur'an into a book to be lived by, a mission to be lived for, and a duty that a reader can no longer evade or postpone. This rare quality is imparted not only by the depth of his scholarship and style of exposition, but also because Sayyid Mawdudi lived by what he expounded, as his life abundantly proves.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 understandings. 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. Each Surah is prefaced by an account of its background and teachings. Maps and indexes add greatly to the understanding.Simply put, in this Tafsir, Sayyid Mawdudi is offering us what we need most to understand and live by 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: 860372057
Surahs 7-9 (Paperback)
Author(s): Sayyid Abul A'la MawdudiPublisher: The Islamic Foundation
Translator(s): Zafar Ishaq Ansari
Description:
Towards Understanding the Qur'an is a fresh and highly readable English rendering of Tafhim al-Qur'an, Sayyid Mawdudi's monumental and masterly Urdu translation and commentary. Here is a Tafsir with a difference, by a scholar of an entirely different sort. An immense wealth of profound understanding of the Qur'an is here, so is a vast treasure of knowledge and deep insights, illuminating historical accounts and philological discussions, and a highly systematic exposition of social, political, economic and legal teachings.
However, what makes this Tafsir unique is that it translates the Qur'an into a book to be lived by, a mission to be lived for, and a duty that a reader can no longer evade or postpone. This rare quality is imparted not only by the depth of his scholarship and style of exposition, but also because Sayyid Mawdudi lived by what he expounded, as his life abundantly proves.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 understandings. 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. Each Surah is prefaced by an account of its background and teachings. Maps and indexes add greatly to the understanding.Simply put, in this Tafsir, Sayyid Mawdudi is offering us what we need most to understand and live by 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: 860372057