A comparative study of Maulana Madoodi’s views and Allama Asad’s views on modern reformation of Islamic civilization

This paper throws light about the services of two scholars for Islam. The purpose of this paper is to differentiate the eastern birth Scholar Maulana Madoodi and the Western birth Scholar Allama Asad (after embracing Islam). Both scholars stress the necessity of modern reformation of Islamic civilization. It is considered that Maudoodi has strict point of view about establishing state for Islamic rules while Allama Asad considers implementation of Islamic rules at individual level first. On the matter of basic sources of Islam, Allama Asad considers Holy Quran and Sunnah (Hadith) important while in Madoodi’s point of view, beside these sources, Ijmah and Ijtehad (Qayas) are also important. In Madoodi’s point of view, Islamic civilization is based on divine guided and framework while Western civilization is based on secularism and socialism stressing upon wellbeing of human. In Allama Asad’s point of view, Western culture and civilization is scientific and advanced than the Eastern world. Further Asad stated that the secular and religion less situation in the West is because of not presenting Islam in the West in true manner. In short, this paper has brief discussion of both scholars point of view about the reformation of Islamic civilization