Revelation & Revolution in Islam

Description

This book discusses the lives, missions, characters, roles, struggles and achievements of the prophet revolutionaries of Islam. These men appeared in pre-capitalist times to liberate humanity from the yoke of oppression and slavery.

The author focuses on the nature of prophecy, revelation and revolution. He answers the following questions: What is truth? What is the social significance of the religious conception of revelatory truth? What is the difference between revelatory truth, revolutionary principle and ritual? The prophet revolutionaries discussed in this book are: Nuh, Hud, Salih, Ibrahim, Shuayb, Musa, Isa and Muhammad.

Author Biography

Ziaul Haque took his MA (Economics) from the University of Sindh in 1963; MA (Arabic & Islamic Studies) from the University of Chicago, USA, 1972; and PhD (Arabic and Islamic Studies) from Chicago, 1975. He worked as a Researcher/Associate Professor in the Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad, from 1964 to 1984. He was also associated with the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (Islamabad) as a Consultant. He specializes in the economic history of early Islam and the Middle East. He was editor of the quarterly research journal, Islamic Studies (Islamabad), from 1975 to 1950. He is the author of “Landlord and Peasant in Early Islam”, which has been appreciated throughout the world as an original contribution towards our understanding of the economic history of early Islam