Towards Understanding Islam

Towards Understanding Islam is a book written by Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi which gained its author a reputation as a religious teacher and major thinker.

Most of the schools and colleges of the South Asia adopted it as a textbook in theology and made its study a part of their curricula.

It has been translated into many of the world's languages, including: English, Arabic, Hindi (titled as इस्लाम धर्म) , Persian, German, French, Italian,[4] Turkish, Portuguese, Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Malayalam, Tamil, Pashto, Balochi, Bengali, Gujarati and Sindhi.

Mawdudi argues that Islam is about much more than daily rituals and habits, and that it is to be regarded as a dynamic system for the whole of life.

He authored more than one hundred works on Islam, both scholarly and popular, and his writings have been translated into more than forty languages.