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Abul A'la al-Maududi was an Islamic scholar and the author of Tafhim-ul-Quran, who was active in British India and later, following the partition, in Pakistan. Described by Wilfred Cantwell Smith as "the most systematic thinker of modern Islam", his numerous works, which "covered a range of disciplines such as Qur'anic exegesis, hadith, law, philosophy, and history", were written in Urdu, but then…
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culture · South Asian Islamic scholar, Founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (1903–1979) · theologian · politician · philosopher · journalist · translator · writer · also Syed Abul Ala Maududi, Abul A'la Maududi, Maududi
Born 25 September 1903 · Died 22 September 1979 · Q369907
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“Mawdudi’s revivalist position was radical communalism as it articulated Muslim interests and sought to protect their rights, and demanded the severance of all cultural and hence social and political ties with Hindus in the interests of purifying Islam.”
As part of a tour to generate mass support for JI
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Died 1979-09-22.
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Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Service to Islam (1979).
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“Islam is a revolutionary ideology and programme which seeks to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals.”
“[Muslims (of the right-thinking kind) constitute a Revolutionary Party whose objective] is to expend all the powers of body and soul, your life and goods in the fi ght against the evil forces of the world, not that having annihilated them you should step into their shoes, but in order that evil and con- tumacy should be wiped out and God’s law should be enforced in the world.”
"accorded Maududi the status of a senior statesman, sought his advice, and allowed his words to adorn the front pages of the newspapers
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Maududi "returned to the center stage"
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Resigned as JI's Ameer (leader) for reasons of health
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And in the overthrow of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1977
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Maududi again overruled the vote of the shura to withdraw from electoral politics
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Outlined a new Jama'at policy declaring that "transformation of the political order through unconstitutional means" was against sharia law
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Described it as a "God-worshipping democratic Caliphate, founded on the guidance vouchsafed to us through Muhammad
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And the JI participated in a campaign against the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan
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The JI shura passed a resolution in support of the party withdrawing from politics, while Maududi argued for continued involvement
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And several senior JI leaders resigned in protest, further strengthened Maududi's position and beginning the growth of a "cult of personality" around him
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And again in 1956–1957, the compromises involved in electoral politics led to a split in the party over what some members felt were a lowering of JI's moral standards
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When he and several other JI leaders were jailed after Maududi objected to the government's clandestine sponsorship of insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir while professing to observe a ceasefire with India
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The JI was split to follow the political boundaries of new countries carved out of British India
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And 1946, and in 1969 was forced to travel to England for treatment
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Moved the Daru'l-Islam with its membership from Pathankot to Lahore
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After meeting the famous Muslim poet Muhammad Iqbal, Maududi moved to a piece of land in the village of Pathankot in the Punjab to oversee a Waqf (Islamic foundation) called Daru'l-Islam
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By Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan on the advice of Allama Muhammad Iqbal for which Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan donated 66 acres (270,000 m2) of land from his vast 1,000-acre (4
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Joined another journal (Tarjuman al-Quran) and from 1932 to 1937 he began to develop his political ideas, and turn towards the cause of Islamic revivalism and Islam as an ideology, over what he called "traditional and
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After spending some time in Delhi as a young man
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It was Maududi's first book, at the age of 24, comprising some 600 pages and hailed by Muhammad Iqbal "as the best explication of the concept of jihad in any language
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By the time he was 16, and still a modernist in mindset, he moved to Delhi and read books by his distant relative, the reformist Sayyid Ahmad Khan
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At the age of 15 and his subsequent appointment as editor of the weekly Urdu newspaper Taj in 1920 at the age of 17, he subsequently resumed his studies as an autodidact in 1921
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Born 1903-09-25.
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[Muslims (of the right-thinking kind) constitute a Revolutionary Party whose objective] is to expend all the powers of body and soul, your life and goods in the fi ght against the evil forces of the world, not that having annihilated them you should step into their shoes, but in order that evil and con- tumacy should be wiped out and God’s law should be enforced in the world.
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