Abul A’la al-Maududi (Urdu: ابو الاعلی المودودی, romanized: Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; 25 September 1903 – 22 September 1979) 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 of modern Islam”, his numerous works, which “covered a range of disciplines such as Qur’anic exegesis, hadith, law, philosophy, and history”
