Abul A’la Maududi

Tags: Philosopher.

Abul Ala Maududi [Abū l-A’lā Mawdūdī](Urdu: ابو الاعلی مودودی‎ – alternative spellings of last name Maudoodi Mawdudi and Modudi) ((1903-09-25)25 September 1903 – 22 September 1979(1979-09-22)) known also as Mawlana was a Islamic scholar journalist theologian Muslim revivalist leader and political philosopher and a 20th-century Islamist thinker in India and later Pakistan.

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birth date

1903-09-25

birth place

Hyderabad State, Aurangabad Maharashtra, British Raj

death date

1979-09-22

death place

Buffalo New York

influenced

Sayyid Qutb, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Hassan al-Banna

main interest

Fiqh, Political aspects of Islam, Tafsir

notableIdea

Islamic state

philosophicalSchool

Sunni Islam

region

Islamic philosophy