To most Pakistanis and to those who have been associated with various Islamic political outfits in countries like Egypt, Indonesia, Syria and Malaysia, Abul Ala Maududi is to 'Political Islam ...

Bangladesh's top court has reinstated Jamaat-e-Islami, ending a long-standing ban and clearing the way for its participation ...

I first met Maulana Sayyid Abul-Ala Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan, in the winter of 1968. He was in London for medical treatment. Along with thousands of other Muslim students, I ...

Abul Ala Maududi. He described Maududi – who died in 1979 – as the "grandfather of Islamism". Newsweek has discovered that hundreds of gold-laminated, hardback copies of Maududi's analyses of ...

Syed Abul Ala Maududi was one of these two men. His ideas opposed secularism and were arguably edged with a hint of antipathy towards Western society, almost certainly influenced by his childhood in ...

[1] In Pakistan, Islamic scholars like Abul Ala Maududi and the far more moderate, Professor Fazalur Rahman Malik, were some of the first to occupy this gap. Their tirades against the conventional ...

Officers did not name the author, but store owners said they had seized literature by the late Abul Ala Maududi, founder of the Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami. Kashmir has been divided ...

The Jamaat-e-Islami has stood against people's interests. The party formed in 1941 by Abul Ala Maududi, who mixed religion and politics, it went against the fundamentals of democratic ideals, which ...

Officers did not name the author but store owners said they had seized literature by the late Abul Ala Maududi, founder of the Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami. Kashmir has been divided ...

She took the name of ‘Maryam Jameela’ — probably in reaction to a rape she suffered in her pre-teens and to compensate for her impaired looks — and began writing to Maulana Abul Ala ...

Officers did not name the author, but store owners said they had seized literature by the late Abul Ala Maududi, founder of the Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami. Kashmir has been divided ...