TY - JOUR
T1 - Conservative anti-colonialism
T2 - Maududi, Marx and social equality
AU - Iqtidar, Humeira
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Asiatic Society
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Abul A -la Maududi explicitly built on Islamic ideas of equality to critique nationalism and modern racism. How then could he reject the idea of social equality between men and women? This is particularly puzzling given his noticeable employment of a Marxist critique of the marketisation of society and liberal conceptions of freedom in his controversial 1939 book Pardah. Parsing out the structure of his argument in Pardah in some detail and emphasising the hitherto understudied engagement with Marxist ideas in his thought, this article shows that Maududi rejected a specific vision of social equality, where equality amounts to exchangeability. His use of Marxist ideas to non-Marxist ends was in large part a result of his assessment of Marx as a capable historian but a flawed philosopher, and more fundamentally a very different conception of society to the Marxist one. Maududi relied on his by then well-developed concept of divine sovereignty to carry much of the conceptual burden regarding his critique of, as well as alternatives to, social equality.
AB - Abul A -la Maududi explicitly built on Islamic ideas of equality to critique nationalism and modern racism. How then could he reject the idea of social equality between men and women? This is particularly puzzling given his noticeable employment of a Marxist critique of the marketisation of society and liberal conceptions of freedom in his controversial 1939 book Pardah. Parsing out the structure of his argument in Pardah in some detail and emphasising the hitherto understudied engagement with Marxist ideas in his thought, this article shows that Maududi rejected a specific vision of social equality, where equality amounts to exchangeability. His use of Marxist ideas to non-Marxist ends was in large part a result of his assessment of Marx as a capable historian but a flawed philosopher, and more fundamentally a very different conception of society to the Marxist one. Maududi relied on his by then well-developed concept of divine sovereignty to carry much of the conceptual burden regarding his critique of, as well as alternatives to, social equality.
KW - Abul 'la Maududi
KW - Anti-colonial thought
KW - Marxism in South Asia
KW - Social equality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85110246780&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/SI356I8632I00034I
DO - 10.1017/SI356I8632I00034I
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110246780
SN - 1356-1863
JO - Journal Of The Royal Asiatic Society
JF - Journal Of The Royal Asiatic Society
ER -