Abu-l A'la Mawdudi (1903-1979) was a Muslim writer and religious and political leader in the Indian sub-continent. He was the founder and head of the fundamentalist religio-political party, the Jama'at-i Islami. Mawdudi, usually referred to as Mawlana...

(1903–1979), South Asian Muslim leader. Abu'l-A'la Mawdudi was the founder of the most important South Asian fundamentalist Islamic movement and a leading ideologue. Born in Hyderabad (south-central India) in 1903, he worked as a...

AYATOLLAH SAYYID Muhammad al-Sadr was a member of a distinguished Iraqi family who traced their genealogy back directly to the Prophet Mohamed (hence the title of Sayyid) and whose ancestors had lived in the region of Jabal Amil in present-day southern Lebanon. In recent...

The work of the Egyptian thinker and activist Qutb is dominated by the concept of jahiliyyah. In developing this theory, Qutb took as one of its bases the idea of hakimiyyah. An understanding of hakimiyyah is therefore important to the study of Qutb's...