Jamaat-E-Islami Pakistan

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) simply known as Jamaat, is a socially conservative and Islamist political party based in Pakistan. Its objective is the transformation of Pakistan into an Islamic state, governed by Sharia law, through a gradual legal, and political process. JI strongly opposes capitalism, communism, liberalism, socialism and secularism as well as economic practices such as offering bank interest. JI is a vanguard party: its members form an elite with “affiliates” and then “sympathizers” beneath them. The party leader is called an ameer. Although it does not have a large popular following, the party is quite influential and considered one of the major Islamic movements in Pakistan, along with Deobandi and Barelvi (represented by Jamiat Ulema-e Islam and Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan respectively).

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On 30 March 2014, Siraj ul Haq became ameer. He resigned from his role as senior minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This coincided with a drone attack on Madrassa, Bajour Agency.
Jamaat-e-Islami is an Islamist movement founded in 1941 in British India by the Islamist theologian and socio-political philosopher, Abul Ala Maududi. Along with the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, Jamaat-e-Islami was one of the original and most influential Islamist organisations, and the first of its kind to develop “an ideology based on the modern revolutionary conception of Islam”.

The group split into separate independent organisations in India and Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind following the Partition of India in 1947. Other groups related to or inspired by Jamaat-e-Islami developed in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Britain, and Afghanistan. The Jamaat-e-Islami parties maintain ties internationally with other Muslim groups.

Maududi was the creator and leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, which became the spearhead of the movement to transform Pakistan from a Muslim homeland into an Islamic state.

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