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Abul A'la al-Maududi ( Urdu: ابو الاعلی المودودی, romanized : Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; 25 September 1903 – 22 September 1979) was an Islamic scholar, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, journalist, activist, and scholar active in British India and later, following the partition, in Pakistan. [1]
May 1, 2024 · Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī (born September 25, 1903, Aurangabad, Hyderabad state [India]—died September 22, 1979, Buffalo, New York, U.S.) was a journalist and fundamentalist Muslim theologian who played a major role in Pakistani politics. Mawdūdī was born to an aristocratic family in Aurangabad under the British raj.
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Abul A’la Maududi (1903–1979) was an influential Islamic revivalist, Islamist thinker, prolific author and political activist, and founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist political organization that has profoundly shaped the Islamic character of Pakistan. Among Islamists globally, Maududi was one of the first to articulate a modern ...
Abul A’la was born on Rajab 3, 1321 AH (September 25, 1903 C.E.) in Aurangabad, a well-known town in the former princely state of Hyderabad (Deccan), presently Andhra Pradesh, India. The family had a long-standing tradition of spiritual leadership and a number of Maududi’s ancestors were outstanding leaders of Sufi Orders.
Abul A'la al-Maududi was an Islamic scholar, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, journalist, activist, and scholar 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 ...
Abul Ala al-Moududi. 25 September 1903 – 22 September 1979. Syed Maududi is not just the name of one Person. It is a mindset, approach, bravery, intellect, and a message of hope and light. Both Western and South Asian historians have described him as one of the most potent Islamic ideologues of the 20th century, whose ideas and writings went ...
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35 Maududi was not alone in finding the lack of existential humility an important element of modernity. In India, Gandhi had seen popular sovereignty as a trap and argued against the notion of inalienable rights (Devji, Faisal, The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence [London: Hurst, 2012], 185 –90CrossRef Google Scholar and chap. 6).
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