# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/syed-abul-ala-maududi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:07:29.047Z

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name: "Syed Abul Ala Maududi"
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description: "Abul A'la al-Maududi was an Islamic scholar and the author of Tafhim-ul-Quran, who was active in British India and later, following the partition, in Pakistan. Described by Wilfred Cantwell Smith as \"the most systematic thinker of modern Islam\", his numerous works, which \"covered a range of disciplines such as Qur'anic exegesis, hadith, law, philosophy, and history\", were written in Urdu, but then translated into English, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Burmese, Malayalam and many other languages. He sought to revive Islam, and to propagate what he understood to be \"true Islam\". He believed that Islam was essential for politics and that it was necessary to institute sharia and preserve Islamic culture similarly as to that during the reign of the Rashidun Caliphs and abandon immorality, from what he viewed as the evils of secularism, nationalism and socialism, which he understood to be the influence of Western imperialism."
tagline: "South Asian Islamic scholar, Founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (1903–1979)"
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gender: "male"
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  isoCode: "IN"
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birthDate: "1903-09-25"
deathDate: "1979-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump