Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani theologian, Islamic scholar and jurist (born 1903)

Abul A'la Maududi

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

Abul A'la al-Maududi 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. Described by Wilfred Cantwell Smith as "the most systematic thinker…