Abul ala maududi biography of christopher

Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi (Urdu: سید ابو الاعلىٰ مودودی ) (or Mawdoodi, Maududi, Maudoodi, Mawdudi) (September 25, 1903 - September 22, 1979) - was a Sunni Pakistani Islamic reformist or Islamist thinker, a politician,  journalist, theologian and political philosopher.

He founded the Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami Islamic revivalist party. He is also known as Maulana (or Mawlana Maududi) or Sheikh Maududi. He was influenced by the Egyptian IslamistHassan al-Banna, founder of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, he may have influenced al-Banna and he most certainly influenced al-Banna's successor, Sayyid Qutb.

One of Maududi's major contributions to Islamist extremism was the systematization of Xenophobia of the West and legitimization of revolt against Muslim states, based on the idea that all such regimes were in a state of Jahiliya - darkness and ba