11 Facts About Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan was founded in Lahore, British India in 1941 by the Muslim theologian and socio-political philosopher, Abul Ala Maududi, who was widely influenced by the Sharia based reign of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan came under severe government repression in 1948,1953, and 1963.

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan's thought was influenced by many factors including the Khilafat Movement; Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's ascension at the end of the Ottoman Caliphate; and the impact of Indian Nationalism, the Indian National Congress and Hinduism on Muslims in India.

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan supported what he called "Islamization from above", through an Islamic state in which sovereignty would be exercised in the name of Allah and Islamic law would be implemented.

The Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan saw the partition as creating a temporal border that would divide Muslims from one another.

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Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan was founded in colonial India on 26 August 1941, at Islamia Park in the city of Lahore, before the Partition of India.

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan banned political parties and warned Maududi against continued religio-political activism.

JI, at first, welcomed the general but then objected when Musharraf began to make secular reforms and then again in 2001, when Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan joined the war on terror, alleging Musharraf had betrayed the Taliban.

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan defeated the incumbent Munawer Hasan and the party's general secretary, Liaqat Baloch.

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan travelled to the Kashmir Valley and eventually persuaded the leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir.

Jointly with Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, it persuaded the Kashmiri Jamaat to take charge of Hizbul Mujahideen by June 1990, and a Jamaat leader called Syed Salahuddin was appointed as its chief.