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Islamic Law and Constitution

Author: Sayyid Abdul A'la Maududi

Translator: Khurshid Ahmad

Description: This book has been widely lauded by academicians, lawyers, legists, jurists, politicians, students of political science, Muslim and non-Muslim scholars of Islam, and many others interested in knowing the political system of Islam. It also provides information about the historic struggle of the Muslims in the early years of the newborn state of Pakistan, to achieve the objectives for which this country came into being. It gives an account of the combined endeavors of the politico-religious leadership of that time to put the country in the right direction, the obstacles they faced during their struggle to achieve the objectives, and the popular ‘Movement for Islamic Constitution’, which earned the country its first “Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan”, in 1956.