'The Salafis', puts Mawdudi in the midst of salafis and revivalists like Ibn Taymiyyah, Muhammad Abduh, Rashid Rida. Jackson in this chapter has highlighted the influence and resemblance of Mawdudi's thought with these salafis and revivalists vis-à-vis distinguish him from them, particularly in his reluctance to engage in independent reasoning. Chapter 8, 'Mawdudi's paradigms: the four sources of his Islamic Constitution', examines Mawdudi's four paradigm's of the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad, the Rightly Guided Caliphs and the great jurists. This may be termed his golden age narrative or his transhistorical perspective and are important for Mawdudi declares them to be his 'four sources' for what would be his Islamic constitution.
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