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Abstract

"The Reconstruction of Islamic State : An Analytical Study of

Muhammad Asad's Thought". This study consists of a critical analysis of the

ideas and thoughts of Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss, 1900-1992), an

Austrian convert to Islam, on the concept of making Pakistan an Islamic

State. Asad, after his conversion from Judaism to Islam in 1926, emerged

as the defender of the faith. On his arrival in the Indo-Pak Sub-continent in

1932, Allama Muhammad Iqbal persuaded him to elucidate the intellectual

premises of the future Islamic State, i.e., Pakistan. Asad was a staunch

supporter of the Pakistan movement. To him the creation of a political entity

for the Muslims of the Sub-continent was the only way, to the revival of all the

dormant hopes of Islam. With the emergence of Pakistan Asad strongly

argued in favour of the idea of Islamic polity/ Islamic state as an alternative to

secular polity inherited from British Colonialism. Asad endeavoured to

elaborate the Islamic concept of statehood and community upon which the

newly born political organization might draw. He formulated a blueprint of the

Islamic Constitution and propounded a theoretical model of the Islamic state

and also developed a framework for modern political Institutions in the Islamic

milieu. He also formulated a scheme to implement the Shari'ah in Pakistan

and to reform the education system.

This study argues that Asad's proposed theoretical model / blueprint of

the Islamic state could provide appropriate foundation for the reconstruction

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of a viable Islamic state in modern times. The argument of this study is based

on the basic primary sources, i.e., the works of Muhammad Asad, the reports

of his interviews and his unpublished correspondence.

Leopold Weiss

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Contribution

Islam at The Crossroads

Lwow

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Strategic Frankfurter Zeitung


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Moralist

Islamischen Gemeindezu Berlin

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Islam at the

Crossroads

Arafat: A Monthly Critique of Muslim Thought

Department of Islamic Reconstruction

. Minister Plenipotentiary


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Islam at the Crossroads

The Road to Mecca

Sahih The Message of the Qur'anThe Principles of Al-BukhariIslam State and Government in IslamThis Law of Ours and and Politics

other Essays


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Islam at the


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Crossroads

ReformationHadith and The Spirit of Sunnah

Sunnah

The Road to Mecca

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Activist-revivalist Rationalist


Is l a m a t t h e Crossroads


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pure reason

rationalize

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Blueprint

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Blueprint The Principles of State and The Message of the Qur'an

Government in Islam

Statecraft

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Precedents


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(Sovereignty) (Paractices)

(Supreme Law)

(Theocracy) (Republican form

of Government)

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(Supreme Tribunal)

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(Ideology)

(Raison d'etre)


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(Islamic theoretical (Western statecraft

and institutional framework) and institutional theory)


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The Road to Mecca Leopold Weiss alias Muhammad Gunther Windhager

Koln-Weimar Asad

Leopold Weiss Windhager The Road to Mecca

The Road to Mecca

Islam at The Road to Mecca the Crossroads

Leopold Weiss Windhager The Road to Mecca The Road to Mecca

Leopold Weiss Windhager Unromantisches Morgenland

Elma Ruth Harder The Unromantic Orient

Leopold Weiss Windhager The Road to Mecca

The Road to Mecca

Sahih Al-Bukhari Islam at the Crossroads

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"Muhammad Asad Karl Gunther Simon

Islamic Studies and the Road to Mecca"

The Sanusiyyah Movement of North Africa The Sanusi E. E. Evans-Pritchard "The C.C. Adams

of Cyrenaica The Muslim World Sanusi"

Is lam at the The R oad to Mecca

Crossroads

The Road to Mecca

Martin Kramer "Muhammad Asad...." Simon Tel Aviv The Jewish Discovery of Islam

The Road to Mecca Sahih Al-Bukhari The Voice of Islam "Iqbal's Role in Muslim Thought"

"Sir Muhammad Iqbal is Dead"

Islamic Culture


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The Road to Mecca


"Khurshid Ahmad: Muslim John L. Voll John L. Esposito

The Muslim World Activist-Economist"

"Islamist Intellectuals of South Asia"

Studies in Contemporary Islam

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"Two Tendencies in Modern (Ahmad S. Moussali)

Islamic Political Thought: Modernism and Fundamentalism"

Murad W. Hamdard Islamicus UK Islam: the Alternative Hofmann

Makers of John L. VollJohn L. Esposito

Contemporary Islam


P o p u l a r Muslim World Translations of the Qur'an in English and Urdu"

"Trans lating the League Journal

Untranslatable: A Survey of English Translations of the Holy

Muslim World Book Review Qur'an""Review (of 'Towards Understanding the Qur'an by Sayyid Abul A' la

Muslim World Book trans. & ed., Zafar Ishaq Ansari)"Mawdudi,

"Review (of 'The Message of the Review Muslim World Book Review Qur'an"


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The Message of the Qur'an

Arafat "Is Religion a thing of the Past?"



The Principles of State and Government in Islam

Islam and Politics

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Arafat "Islamic Reconstruction"

Arafat "What Do We Mean by Pakistan"?

Calling all Muslims "Enforcement of Shari'ah in Pakistan"

"Construction or Deconstruction?" Arafat

Arafat Calling all Muslims "Islamic Reconstruction"

"Enforcement of Shari'ah in Pakistan" Arafat "Towards an Islamic Constitution"

"Islamic Constitution-Making"

"Enforcement of Shari'ah in Arafat

Pakistan""Enforcement of "Islamic Reconstruction"

"Notes and Comments" Shari'ah in Pakistan"

Arafat

The Islamic World Review "Asad Interviewed" The Pr i nc i p l es o f S ta te Ar ab i a

The Islam and Pol i t ics

"Interview: Message of the Qur'anSouth: The Global Business Magazine Muhammad Asad"

Calling all Muslims "Islamic Reconstruction"

The Road to The Principles of State


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Mecca

The Principles of State The Road to Mecca

The Road to The Principles of State Arafat "The Social Contract in Islam" Mecca

The Road to Mecca

Towards an Islamic The Principles of State

Constitution"

The Principles of State Islam and Politics

The Road to Mecca

The Principles of State The Principles of State

The Principles of State The Message of the Qur'an

The Principles of State The Principles of State

Malise Ruthven The Principles of State Arabia: The Islamic "Muhammad Asad: Embassador of Islam"

World Review

The Message of the The Principles of State

Qur'an

The Message of the The Principles of State

Qur'an

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The Principles of State The Principles of The Road to Mecca

"Tow ar ds an I s l am ic Sta t e

The Message of the Qur'an Constitution"

Islam and Politics

Islam and Politics The Principles of State

Principles of State Islam and Politics

South: "Interview-Muhammad Asad" Mushtaq Parker "Asad The Global Business Magazine

Arabia: The Islamic World Review Interviewd"

"Muhammad Asad: A Great Muslim Scholar" The Universal Message

A Short History of the Saracens


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