B. BIOGRAPHY of AL-Maududi

B. BIOGRAPHY of AL-Maududi
Abu al-A'la al-Maududi is a descendant Maudud-a narrator of Hadith Prophet Muhammad-hence the title of al-Maududi accompany his name. Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi, who is better known as al-Mawdudi, is a prominent figure of modern Islamic thought renewal birth Aurangabad on 25 September 1908 M / 03 Rajab 1321 AH, the city of Sultanate of Hyderabad (Deccan), which is now better known with the name of Andhra Prades in India. His father named Hasan al-Mawdudi (birth 1855 M) and his mother named Ruqayyah.

In the course of his studies, since the beginning of al-Maududi has received his education through non-formal parents. And from this classical education can make him not know English, but he mastered Arabic, Persian and Urdu. At the age of 11 years, he sat on the bench of formal education, studying in Modern School, Madrasah Fauqaniyah in Aurangabad, which is combines modern education system of West and Islam. The End of the Madrasah education, he continued his education to pergururan Deoband Dar al-'Ulum in Hyderabad, an educational institution of the most influential and well-known in India at that time.

It is difficult, perhaps this is a suitable word if we want to classify areas of concentration of al-Maududi. He is not a specialist, who concentration himself on the area of science study alone, but he is a generalist who has powers of science major. The strength of al-Maududi was in the area of tafsir quran, the various branches of ethics and social studies.

At the age of 26 years, he has published a large scientific work, unequaled, with the title of "al-Jihad fi al-Islam". And Tafhim al-Quran, it is his monumental work in the area of tafsir quran, besides it there are still many more of tafsir thematic other.