Sayyid abul ala maududi biography sampler

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 f