- Maududi has been an intensely controversial figure. Criticism has come both from secularists and from within the Islamic religious establishment. Many of the ulama who were involved in the founding of the Jama`at-e Islami left shortly afterwards in protest against Maududi's policies and leadership style. Both Barelwi and Deobandi ulama have accused Maududi of having turned Islam upside down. - From the Barelwi side, a representative critique is that offered by Shaikh al-Islam Sayyid Muhammad Madani Ashrafi who authored a series of b ...

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Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Ancestry, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Early life, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Political emergence, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Philosophy, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Achievements, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Criticisms, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Works, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Related groups and personalities, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Islam-related topics

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By 1941, Maulana Maududi founded Jamaat-e-Islami to promote an Islamist agenda in India. Maulana Maududi was elected as the Jamaat’s first Ameer (President) and he was re-elected every year until 1972 when he resigned for health reasons. Maududi strongly opposed the idea of creating Pakistan, a separate Muslim country, by breaking apart India. But after the Partition of India in 1947, Maulana Maududi migrated to Pakistan. He began working to build an Islamic state and society. He relentlessly criticized the secular policies of the n ...

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Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Ancestry, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Early life, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Political emergence, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Philosophy, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Achievements, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Criticisms, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Works, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Related groups and personalities, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Islam-related topics

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Islamism refers to a set of political ideologies derived from various religious views of Muslim fundamentalists, which hold that Islam is not only a religion, but also a political system that should govern the legal, economic and social imperatives of the state. Islamist movements seek to re-shape the state by implementing a conservative formulation of Sharia. [1] Islamists regard themselves as Muslims rather than Islamists, while moderate Muslims and liberal movements within Islam reject this notion. Some perceive Islamists as Triump ...

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Islamism - Definition Islamism - History
Islamism - The Deobandi Movement Islamism - Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi Islamism - The Muslim Brotherhood Islamism - Islamic Jihad movements Islamism - Wahhabism Islamism - Recent history
Islamism - Islamism and modern political theory Islamism - Islamist movements

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Islamism refers to a set of political ideologies derived from various religious views of Muslim fundamentalists, which hold that Islam is not only a religion, but also a political system that should govern the legal, economic and social imperatives of the state. Islamist movements seek to re-shape the state by implementing a conservative formulation of Sharia. [1] Islamists regard themselves as Muslims rather than Islamists, while moderate Muslims and liberal movements within Islam reject this notion. Some perceive Islamists as Triump ...

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Islamism - Definition Islamism - History
Islamism - Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi Islamism - The Muslim Brotherhood Islamism - Islamic Jihad movements Islamism - Wahhabism Islamism - Recent history
Islamism - Islamism and modern political theory Islamism - Islamist movements

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Maulana Maududi was home-schooled before attending Madrasah Furqaniyah, a high school that combined Western education with traditional Islamic education. He attended college at Darul Uloom in Hyderabad but withdrew when his father became terminally ill. He knew enough Arabic, Persian, English, and his native tongue Urdu to continue his studies independently. In 1918, at the age of 15, he began working as a journalist for a leading Urdu newspaper to support himself, and in 1920, he was appointed editor of Taj, published in Jabal ...

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Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Ancestry, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Early life, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Political emergence, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Philosophy, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Achievements, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Criticisms, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Works, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Related groups and personalities, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Islam-related topics

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Maulana Maududi wrote more than 120 books and pamphlets and gave over 1000 speeches (700 were recorded for wider distribution.). His main subject matter was Qur'anic exegesis (Tafsir), ethics, social studies and the problems facing the Islamic revival movement. His monumental Urdu analysis of the Qur'an, Tafhim al-Qur'an (“Chapter Introductions to the Qur'an”), took 30 years to complete. [1] The tome explicates the relevance of the Qur'an as a guide to solving the mundane problems in life at the level of the individual and ...

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Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Ancestry, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Early life, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Political emergence, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Philosophy, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Achievements, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Criticisms, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Works, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Related groups and personalities, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Islam-related topics

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Maulana Maududi was home-schooled before attending Madrasah Furqaniyah, a fomous high school in Hyderabad which is, despite being named "Madrassah", not an Islamic seminary. He attended college at Darul Uloom in Hyderabad but withdrew when his father became terminally ill. He knew enough Arabic, Persian, English, and his native tongue Urdu to continue his studies independently. In 1918, at the age of 15, he began working as a journalist for a leading Urdu newspaper to support himself, and in 1920, he was appointed editor of Taj ...

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Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Ancestry, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Early life, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Political emergence, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Philosophy, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Achievements, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Criticisms, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Works, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Related groups and personalities, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Islam-related topics

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Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (1941–1989) (Arabic عبدالله عزام) also known as Shaikh Azzam was a central figure in the global development of the militant Islamist movement. Shaikh Azzam built a scholarly, ideological and practical paramilitary infrastructure for the globalization of Islamist movements that had previously focused on separate national, revolutionary and liberation struggles. Shaikh Azzam’s philosophical rationalization of global jihad and practical approach to recruitment and training of Muslim militants from ...

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Militant Islam - No one doctrine. As scholars of this movement have carefully outlined, in a very great variety of works up to and through the 1970s, there is little tactically in common in the various movements that seek to apply Islam as a solution, or use its terms to rationalize their solutions, to issues in the modern Islamic World. The only two objective things that can be said about all of militant Islam is: (a) they are militant and employ force or violence directly, either in offense or defense ...

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Militant Islam, Militant Islam - Militancy as the defining attribute, Militant Islam - No one doctrine, Militant Islam - More than fundamentalism, Militant Islam - More than radical, Militant Islam - 20th century militant movements, Militant Islam - The Deobandi Movement, Militant Islam - Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Militant Islam - The Muslim Brotherhood, Militant Islam - Islamic Jihad movements, Militant Islam - Wahhabism, Militant Islam - Current movements, Militant Islam - A cover story?

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Some of these movements do not practice much of Islam, a few do. Hamas, for instance, has both a social organization in the Gaza Strip, and a militant wing that has been responsible for a great many suicide bombings in Israel. There is some debate as to how influential the more militant movements remain. Some scholars assert that, as an intellectual movement, the simplistic interpretation of Islam as a non-democratic movement is a fringe that is dying, following the clear failures of nominally Islamic regimes like the regime in Sudan, the Wahhabist Saudi regime and th ...

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Militant Islam, Militant Islam - Militancy as the defining attribute, Militant Islam - No one doctrine, Militant Islam - More than fundamentalism, Militant Islam - More than radical, Militant Islam - 20th century militant movements, Militant Islam - The Deobandi Movement, Militant Islam - Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Militant Islam - The Muslim Brotherhood, Militant Islam - Islamic Jihad movements, Militant Islam - Wahhabism, Militant Islam - Current movements, Militant Islam - A cover story?

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Given the variety of the movements, and their varying goals, it is almost always advisable when referring to a specific political movement, to avoid generalizations and refer to it by its name. In order to understand the origins of these movements, it is advisable to first consider the role of tarika in spreading Islam, and two movements, Deobandi and Wahabism, which are not considered militant, nor even necessarily radical, but which influenced the key figures in Modern Islamic philosophy and tactical events that created the r ...

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Militant Islam, Militant Islam - Militancy as the defining attribute, Militant Islam - No one doctrine, Militant Islam - More than fundamentalism, Militant Islam - More than radical, Militant Islam - 20th century militant movements, Militant Islam - The Deobandi Movement, Militant Islam - Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Militant Islam - The Muslim Brotherhood, Militant Islam - Islamic Jihad movements, Militant Islam - Wahhabism, Militant Islam - Current movements, Militant Islam - A cover story?

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Modern Islam went through major political and philosophical developments in the early part of the twentieth century, but it was not until the 1980s that it became powerfully militant in an international arena. The Khomenist revolution in Iran, though Shia in character, provided an inspiration to many radicals and served as an example that an Islamic state could be established, using violent and militant means. During the conflict against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, many militant Islamists came together to fight what they saw as a ...

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Militant Islam, Militant Islam - Militancy as the defining attribute, Militant Islam - No one doctrine, Militant Islam - More than fundamentalism, Militant Islam - More than radical, Militant Islam - 20th century militant movements, Militant Islam - The Deobandi Movement, Militant Islam - Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Militant Islam - The Muslim Brotherhood, Militant Islam - Islamic Jihad movements, Militant Islam - Wahhabism, Militant Islam - Current movements, Militant Islam - A cover story?

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Al-Sharif passed the Jihad leadership to Ayman al-Zawahri amid dissent within the movement in the mid 1980's. The al-Zawahri faction subsequently formed an alliance with Al-Qaeda leading over time to the effective merger of the two groups operations inside Afghanistan. Although al-Zawahri is frequently refered to as a 'lieutenant' or 'second in command' of Al Qaeda this description is misleading as it implies a hierarchical relationship. The modern Al Qaeda organization is the combination of Bin Laden's financial resources with al-Zaw ...

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Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Activities, Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Leadership, Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Location/Area of Operation, Egyptian Islamic Jihad - External Aid

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The most well-known and feared mujahideen were the various loosely-aligned opposition groups that fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989, and then fought against each other in the following civil war. The mujahideen were provided some support before the Soviet invasion according to Zbigniew Brzezinski in order to '.. have the opportunity to give the Soviet Union its Vietnam'[1]. After the Soviet invasion these mujahideen were significantly financed, armed, and trained by the United States (under the pr ...

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Mujahideen, Mujahideen - Etymology, Mujahideen - Afghan Mujahideen, Mujahideen - Mujahideen in Bosnia, Mujahideen - Mujahideen in Iraq

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The best-known and most feared mujahedeen were the various loosely-aligned opposition groups that fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989, and then fought against each other in the following civil war. The mujahedeen were provided some support before the Soviet invasion according to Zbigniew Brzezinski in order to '.. have the opportunity to give the Soviet Union its Vietnam'[1]. After the Soviet invasion these mujahedeen were significantly financed, armed, and trained by the United States (under the pr ...

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Mujahideen, Mujahideen - Etymology, Mujahideen - Afghan Mujahedeen, Mujahideen - Mujahedeen in Bosnia

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During the Bosnian war, Bosniak forces received financial and military aid from Islamic countries. This military aid was partially sent in the form of experienced mujahedeen troops. A certain number of these mujahedeen fighters stayed in Bosnia when the war ended. They attained Bosnian citizenship, and are now living in several villages throughout Bosnia, where they follow the Muslim way of life. It is known that those who remained are concentrated around the city ...

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Mujahideen, Mujahideen - Etymology, Mujahideen - Afghan Mujahedeen, Mujahideen - Mujahedeen in Bosnia

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The best-known and most feared mujahedeen were the various loosely-aligned opposition groups that fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989, and then fought against each other in the following civil war. The mujahedeen were provided some support before the Soviet invasion according to Zbigniew Brzezinski in order to '.. have the opportunity to give the Soviet Union its Vietnam'[1]. After the Soviet invasion these mujahedeen were significantly financed, armed, and trained by the United States (under the pr ...

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Mujahideen, Mujahideen - Etymology, Mujahideen - Afghan Mujahideen, Mujahideen - Mujahedeen in Bosnia

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During the Bosnian war, Bosniak forces received financial and military aid from Islamic countries. This military aid was partially sent in the form of experienced mujahedeen troops. A certain number of these mujahedeen fighters stayed in Bosnia when the war ended. They attained Bosnian citizenship, and are now living in several villages throughout Bosnia, where they follow the Muslim way of life. It is known that those who remained are concentrated around the city ...

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Mujahideen, Mujahideen - Etymology, Mujahideen - Afghan Mujahideen, Mujahideen - Mujahedeen in Bosnia

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The most well-known and feared mujahedeen were the various loosely-aligned opposition groups that fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989, and then fought against each other in the following civil war. The mujahedeen were provided some support before the Soviet invasion according to Zbigniew Brzezinski in order to '.. have the opportunity to give the Soviet Union its Vietnam'[1]. After the Soviet invasion these mujahedeen were significantly financed, armed, and trained by the United States (under the pr ...

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Mujahideen, Mujahideen - Etymology, Mujahideen - Afghan Mujahedeen, Mujahideen - Mujahedeen in Bosnia

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