Lexington Books
Pages: 392
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66696-683-1 • Hardback • February 2025 • $135.00 • (£104.00)
978-1-66696-684-8 • eBook • December 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00) (coming soon)
Dragos Stoica teaches at the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University in Montréal.
Introduction: Two Traditions of Political Theology and a Rogue Islamist Thinker in Search of His Family
Chapter 1: From Literary Critic to Islamist Martyr: The Intellectual Evolution of Sayyid Qutb
Chapter 2: Wrestling the Juggernaut: The Islamist Political Theologies of Sayyid Qutb and A.A Mawdudi as Critiques of Modern Ideologies
Chapter 3: Sayyid Qutb’s and Juan Donoso Cortés’s Political Theology of the Clash of Civilizations.
Chapter 4: Abraham Kuyper and Sayyid Qutb as Political Theologians of God’s Sovereignty.
Chapter 5: Rousas J. Rushdoony and Sayyid Qutb: The Apotheosis of God’s Sovereignty in Anti-Modern Political Theology
Conclusion: Sayyid Qutb as a Political Theologian: A View from the Other Side
Sayyid Qutb’s Radical Islamism and The Comparative Political Theology brings the Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966) together with the influential Pakistani thinker Abu al-A‘la Mawdudi (d. 1979), Spanish Catholic politician and theorist Juan Donoso Cortés (d. 1853), Dutch Neo-Calvinist theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper (d. 1920) and American Christian Reconstructionist Rousas J. Rushdoony (d. 2001) to explore their shared rejection of secular modernity. Stoica’s carefully crafted analysis convincingly and even devastatingly demonstrates how the thought of these seemingly diverse figures meets in a clear insistence on God’s Sovereignty and totalizing, militant vision of politics. The transcultural lens of the book challenges our understanding of how religion confronts the metaphysical and political challenges posed by modernity and is essential reading for anyone grappling with the rise of radical Islam or right-wing Christianity.
— Lynda Clarke, Concordia University