The present volume aspires to contribute, in a modest way towards filling the lacunae in the study of Islamic movements in the Indian Subcontinent. Its point of focus is one particular movement, the Jammat-i-Islami, whose history follows incisively that of the subbcontinent but whose influence spills over well beyond its borders. This comprehensive analysis concerns itself for the larger part with the Pakistani Jammaat-i-Islami, the nerve-centre of the movement.