TY - BOOK AU - Rasheed, Adil. AU - Adil Rasheed TI - Political Islam: : Parallel Currents in West Asia and South Asia SN - 9789390095964 U1 - 953 RAS PY - 2024/// CY - , New Delhi PB - : Pentagon Press KW - Muslim political KW - History KW - Muslim scholars N2 - This book deals with the history of Muslim political thought from the time of the Prophet to early 21" century in 'West Asia' (an Indian alternative to the 'colonial' term Middle East) and South Asia. Although Islam does not present nor recommend any political philosophy or state-like system per se, Muslim scholars and theologians have over the centuries recommended ways for establishing an ideal Islamic polity based on Quranic inferences, precedents of the Prophet and some early Caliphs ER -