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Abul A'la Maududi

1903 - 1979

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Abul A'la al-Maududi (Urdu: ابو الاعلیٰ المودودی, romanized: Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; (1903-09-25)25 September 1903 – (1979-09-22)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", 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abul A'la Maududi has received more than 1,922,164 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Abul A'la Maududi is the 432nd most popular philosopher (up from 453rd in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from India (up from 139th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Abul A'la Maududi ranks 432 out of 1,267. Before him are Pierre d'Ailly, Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, H. L. A. Hart, and Henry Suso. After him are Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Ronald Dworkin, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Giles of Rome, Ernest Gellner, and Francisco Ferrer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Abul A'la Maududi ranks 59. Before him are The French Angel, Yisrael Kristal, Vladimir Bartol, Alonzo Church, Ernest Walton, and Claudette Colbert. After him are Eliot Ness, George Davis Snell, Vincente Minnelli, Maud Lewis, Raymond Radiguet, and Tamam Shud case. Among people deceased in 1979, Abul A'la Maududi ranks 43. Before him are Dhyan Chand, Giulio Natta, Edvard Kardelj, Francisco Macías Nguema, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Mamie Eisenhower. After him are Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Ali Hassan Salameh, Rudi Dutschke, Charles Mingus, Nicholas Ray, and Conrad Hilton.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abul A'la Maududi ranks 132 out of 1,861. Before him are Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), Mata Amritanandamayi (1953), Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835), Lakshmi Mittal (1950), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918). After him are Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Ajatashatru (-500), Bharata Muni (-1000), Anna Mani (1918), and Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Abul A'la Maududi ranks 18. Before him are Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Ramanuja (1017), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), and Buddhaghosa (401). After him are Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Ravidas (1450), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Madhvacharya (1199), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), and Shantideva (685).

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