PHILOSOPHER

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abul A'la Maududi is the 358th most popular philosopher (up from 432nd in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from India (up from 132nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Abul A'la Maududi ranks 358 out of 1,267. Before him are Robert Nozick, Hermann Cohen, Günther Anders, René Girard, Otto Neurath, and Peter Singer. After him are Nasir Khusraw, John Philoponus, George Santayana, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Julius Caesar Scaliger, and Stilpo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Abul A'la Maududi ranks 48. Before him are Haldan Keffer Hartline, Igor Kurchatov, Matthias Sindelar, Claudette Colbert, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and Julius Fučík. After him are Eliot Ness, Giulio Natta, Bruno Bettelheim, Andrei Grechko, Claudio Arrau, and Kenneth Clark. Among people deceased in 1979, Abul A'la Maududi ranks 36. Before him are Werner Forssmann, Nur Muhammad Taraki, Jean Seberg, Reinhard Gehlen, Yukio Tsuda, and Wilhelm Bittrich. After him are Francisco Macías Nguema, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Rachele Mussolini, Giulio Natta, Edvard Kardelj, and Wilfred Bion.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abul A'la Maududi ranks 131 out of 1,861. Before him are Samudragupta (335), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), Pete Best (1941), Ravi Shankar (1920), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), and Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200). After him are Kim Philby (1912), Radha (null), Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936), Ramanuja (1017), Rajendra Chola I (1000), and Cliff Richard (1940).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Abul A'la Maududi ranks 16. Before him are Kabir (1440), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Sri Aurobindo (1872), Ramana Maharshi (1879), and Vyasa (-390). After him are Ramanuja (1017), Chandrakirti (600), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Shantideva (685), and Homi K. Bhabha (1949).

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