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He founded the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami. Maududi was born in the city of Aurangabad in colonial India , then part of the princely state enclave of Hyderabad. He was the youngest of three sons of Ahmad Hasan, a lawyer by profession. Although his father was only middle-class, he was the descendant of the Chishti in fact, his last name was derived from the first member of the Chishti Silsilah, i.

Until he was nine, Maududi "received religious nurture at the hands of his father and from a variety of teachers employed by him. When he was eleven, Maududi was admitted to the eighth class directly in Madrasa Fawqaniyya Mashriqiyya Oriental High School , Aurangabad , founded by Shibli Nomani , a modernist Islamic scholar trying to synthesize traditional Islamic scholarship with modern knowledge, and which awakened Maududi's long-lasting interest in philosophy particularly from Thomas Arnold , who also taught the same subject to Muhammad Iqbal as well as natural sciences , like mathematics, physics , and chemistry.

He then moved to a more traditionalist Darul Uloom in Hyderabad. Meanwhile, his father shifted to Bhopal — there Maududi befriended Niaz Fatehpuri , another modernist — where he suffered a severe paralysis attack and died leaving no property or money, forcing his son to abort his education.

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In by the time he was 16, and still a modernist in mindset, he moved to Delhi and read books by his distant relative, the reformist Sayyid Ahmad Khan. He also learned English and German to study, intensively, Western philosophy , sociology, and history for full five years: he eventually came up to the conclusion that " ulama' in the past did not endeavor to discover the causes of Europe's rise, and he offered a long list of philosophers whose scholarship had made Europe a world power: Fichte , Hegel , Comte , Mill , Turgot , Adam Smith , Malthus , Rousseau , Voltaire , Montesquieu , Darwin , Goethe , and Herder , among others.

Comparing their contribution to that of Muslims, he concluded that the latter did not reach even 1 percent. Despite his initial publication on electricity in 'Maarif' in at the age of 15 [ 32 ] and his subsequent appointment as editor of the weekly Urdu newspaper Taj in at the age of 17, [ 33 ] he subsequently resumed his studies as an autodidact in Notably through the influence of certain members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind , he pursued subjects such as physics and Dars-e-Nizami.

However, he abstained from referring to himself as an 'alim' in the formal sense, as he perceived the Islamic scholars as regressive, despite some influence from Deobandi on him: [ 35 ]. He said that he was a middle-class man who had learned through both new and old ways of learning. Maududi concluded that neither the traditional nor the contemporary schools are entirely correct, based on his own inner guidance.