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Abul A'la Maududi

South Asian Islamic scholar, Founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (1903–1979)

Abul A'la al-Maududi (Urdu: ابو الاعلیٰ المودودی, romanized: Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; (1903-09-25)25 September 1903 – (1979-09-22)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] Described by Wilfred Cantwell Smith as "the most systematic thinker of modern Islam",^[2] his numerous works, which "covered a range of disciplines such as Qur'anic exegesis, hadith, law, philosophy, and history",^[3] were written in Urdu, but then translated into English, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Burmese, Malayalam and many other languages.^[4] He sought to revive Islam,^[5] and to propagate what he understood to be "true Islam".^[6] He believed that Islam was essential for politics and that it was necessary to institute sharia and preserve Islamic culture similarly a

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Interview with Maulana Maududi

by Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi

Maulana Maudoodi, founder of the Jamaat Islami and a leading Muslim reformer and activist of the Twentieth Century, was interviewed by The Muslim's editorial board at the home of the late Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui in Tottenham, North London in December 1968. The interviews were published in the February and March 1969 issues of the magazine. The magazine's editor-in-chief at the time was Abdullah Jibril Oyekan, with AbdulWahid Hamid the mainstay of its four-man editorial board. The meeting occurred during a period of world unrest: the student demos in Paris, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the overthrow of Col. Arif by the Baathists in Iraq, the emergence of a polical movement to remove the army general Ayub Khan from power in Pakistan - and, in the months to come, the Muslim world was also to witness an army coup in Sudan, bringing Numeiri to power and Col. Gaddafi's coup in Libya.

With this background, The Muslim's editors were much exercised by the question whether an Islamic state could be es

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Abul Ala Maududi

Abul Ala Maududi (Urdu: ابو الاعلی مودودی - grafias alternativas do sobrenome Maudoodi, Mawdudi e Modudi) (25 de setembro de 1903 - 22 de setembro de 1979), conhecido também como Mawlana, foi um estudioso islâmico, jornalista, teólogo, líder muçulmano, e um islâmico pensador do século XX na Índia, e mais tarde do Paquistão.^[1] Foi também era uma figura política no Paquistão e o primeiro a receber o Prémio Internacional Rei Faisal em 1979. Ele também foi o fundador do partido islâmico Jamaat-e Islami na então Índia britânica.^[2]

Nas suas inúmeras obras, cobriu uma série de disciplinas como a exegese do Alcorão e hadith, lei, filosofia e história, escritos em urdu, e traduzidos para inglês, árabe, hindi, bengali, tamil, birmanês e muitas outras línguas. Ele procurou reavivar o Islã, e propagar o que ele entendia ser "verdadeiro Islã". Acreditava que o Islã era essencial para a política, e que era necessário instituir a Xaria e preservar a cultura islâmica do que ele via como os males do secularismo, nacionalismo e socialismo, que ele entendia ser a influên