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Maudoodi & The Mahdi
Criticisms
- Maududi has been an intensely controversial figure. Criticism has come both from secularists and from within the Islamic religious establishment. Many of the Ulema 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 Barelvii side, a representative critique is that offered bygd Shaikh al-Islam Sayyid Muhammad Madani Ashrafi who authored a series of books on Maududi's misunderstanding and abuse of traditional Islamic terminology. Foremost amongst Deobandi scholars who have written formal refutations of Maududi is Shaikh Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalwi, the late hadith scholar and influential figure in the Tablighi Jama`at. Kandhalwi's book "Fitna-e Mawdudiyyat" begins with a mention of how Maududi was expelled from his madrassah studi
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Al Islam
Surely, this is a reminder; so whoever wishes may take the way that leads to his Lord.
(Quran, 76.30)
In our domain we neither allow any Muslim to change his religion nor allow any other religion to propagate its faith.
—Maulana Maududi1
Maulana Maududi’s desire for political power knew no bounds. The law of apostasy which he evolved was an extension of his dictatorial and intolerant personality—it had ingenting to do with Islam. Dr Israr Ahmad, who worked closely with Maududi, said that Maududi borrowed the principles of his movement from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and the Khairi brothers and the style of his presentation from Niyaz Fatehpuri. But he was so egocentric that he never acknowledged that his ideas came from anyone but himself.2
Similarly, the Maulana’s ideas on apostasy, though originating from an interpretive error of early Muslim jurisprudence (fiqh) are, in fact, based on medieval Christianity. The Deoband school; which was on
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Interview with Maulana Maududi
by Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi
Maulana Maudoodi, founder of the Jamaat Islami and a leading Muslim reformer and activist of the Twentieth Century, was interviewed by The Muslim's editorial board at the home of the late Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui in Tottenham, North London in December 1968. The interviews were published in the February and March 1969 issues of the magazine. The magazine's editor-in-chief at the time was Abdullah Jibril Oyekan, with AbdulWahid Hamid the mainstay of its four-man editorial board. The meeting occurred during a period of world unrest: the student demos in Paris, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the overthrow of Col. Arif by the Baathists in Iraq, the emergence of a polical movement to remove the army general Ayub Khan from power in Pakistan - and, in the months to come, the Muslim world was also to witness an army coup in Sudan, bringing Numeiri to power and Col. Gaddafi's coup in Libya.
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