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Murder in the Name of Allah 4 Ibid. 5 W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Medina (Karachi: Oxford University. Press, 1981), 15. 6 Will Durant, The Story of Civilisation, 11 vols. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950); vol. IV, The Age of Faith, 168. 7 Ibid. , 157. 8 Ibid. 9 'They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ” The Book of the Prophet Isaiah, 2:4. 10 Maulana Maududi's original Urdu word is qalbarani, literally, 'ploughing'. 11 Maharaja Kishen Perhad Shad was a Persian and Urdu poet and was known for his Nati-i-Rasul (Hymns honouring the Holy Prophet). 12 Harriet Rouken Lynton and Mohini Rajan, The Days of the Beloved (Berkeley:. University of California Press, 1974), ix. The book describes the life and times of Muhbub Pasha (1869-1911), the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad. ) 13 He was born on 25 September 1903 in Aurangabad; Arif Batalwi, Aik. Maududi Das Islam (Lahore). 14 Mu Inuddin Aqil, Tahrik-i-Pakistan aur Maulana Maududi, (Karachi:. Khayal-Nau, 1971), 27. Most of the biographical details in this book are taken from Muhammad Yusuf's Maulana Maududi Apni aur Dusron ki. Nazar Main (Lahore: Maktaba Al-Habib, n. d. ). 15 Muhammad Yusuf, op. cit. , 363-4; and Mu Inuddin Aqil, op. cit. , 27. 16 Maulana Maududi had earlier written a book on Gandhiji's biography but it was banned before its publication. Arif Batalvi, Aik Maududi Das Islam, op. cit. , 10; see Mumtaz Ali Asi, Maulana Maududi aur Jamaati Islam, Aik. Jaizah. 17 Mu Inuddin Aqil, op. cit. , 26; see Muhammad Yusuf, op. cit. , 362-3. 18 Deccan ki Siyasi Tarikh and Daulat-i-Asifiyah aur Hukumat-i-Bartaniya. 19 Fazlur Rahman, Islam and Modernity - Transformation of an Intellectual. Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 116; emphasis added. 20 Maktube-i-Hidayat (Deoband: Kutub Khana Izaziyah), 21; see Maulana. Muhammad Akhtar, Maududi Sahib Akabir-i-Ummat-ki Nazar Main (Bombay). 21 Maulana Muhammad Akhtar, Maududi Sahib Akabir-i-Ummat-ki Nazar. Main, op. cit. , 9. 22 ibid. , 15. 23 ibid. , . 48. 24 Will Durant, The Age of Faith, op. cit. , 159. 25 Joel Carmichael, The Shaping of the Arabs, a Study In Ethnic Identity (New. York, 1967), 38. 26 Maxime Rodinson, Mohammed, trans. Anne Carter (New York, 1971), 194. 138