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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Egypt, Hassan al-Banna's Muslim Brotherhood and in Pakistan, Syed Abul Ala Maududi's Jamaat Islami sought to restore the Islamic ideal of the union of religion and state. They blamed the western ...

Maulana Abul Ala Maududi, founder of Jamaat-e-Islami said, “If people knew that even a single talaq would dissolve the marriage, of course, leaving room for revocation during the next three ...

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 ...