Khawajah Syed Qutb ul-Din Maudood Chishti (d. His father was the descendent of the Chishti line of saints in fact his last name was derived from the first member of the Chishti Silsilah i.e. Syed Abul A'ala Maududi was the youngest of his three brothers. Syed Abul A'ala Maududi was born to Maulana Ahmad Hasan, a lawyer by profession. Maududi was born in Aurangabad, (presently Maharashtra ), India, then part of the princely state enclave of Hyderabad, until it was annexed by India (1948).
He was also the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamic revivalist party. He was also a prominent political figure in Pakistan and was the first recipient of King Faisal International Award for his services to Islam in 1979. Syed Abul A'ala Maududi ( Urdu: سید ابو الاعلىٰ مودودی – alternative spellings of last name Maudoodi and Modudi) (Septem( ) – Septem( )), also known as Molana (Maulana) or Shaikh Syed Abul A'ala Mawdudi, was a Sunni Pakistani journalist, theologian, Muslim revivalist leader and political philosopher, and a major 20th century Islamist thinker.
