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- Abu al-A’la al-Mawdudi, journalist and fundamentalist Muslim theologian who played a major role in Pakistani politics. He is best known for his formulation of an Islamic political theory in which God alone is sovereign.
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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]
Jun 12, 2024 · Abu al-A’la al-Mawdudi, journalist and fundamentalist Muslim theologian who played a major role in Pakistani politics. He is best known for his formulation of an Islamic political theory in which God alone is sovereign.
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May 25, 2011 · Sayyid Abuʾl-Aʾla Mawdudi (b. 1903–d. 1979) is a towering figure in the intellectual and political history of South Asian Islam. He was also one of the key ideological architects of what has come to be known as “Islamism”: the belief that the implementation of an authentically Islamic legal order can only be achieved through the ...
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.
Sayyid Abul Ala al-Maududi (Urdu: سيد ابو الاعلى مودودی, Arabic: سيد أبو الأعلى المودودي; alternative spellings of first and last names: Syed, Maudoodi, and Mawdudi; often referred to as Maulana Maududi and Imam Maududi) (September 25, 1903 – September 22, 1979) founded the Jamaat-e-Islami (The Islamic ...
Jan 1, 2015 · Mr Abu-Al-Ala, Maududi's Tafheem ul Quran is a thought provoking explanation of the QURAN-AL-HAKEEM, which invites the Muslims to rethink of the purpose of their lives.
Jan 18, 2018 · As the founder and the main ideologue of the large and influential Jama'at-e Islami in Pakistan and India, Maududi was both a political activist as well as a theorist of political Islam in the modern world.
