ABSTRACT
American Central Intelligence Agency,
and cast doubt on his scholarship on the
grounds that he never received a formal
Islamic education. His writings were
frequently dismissed as being mutually
contradictory, and his opinions were
characterized as immoral, as constitut-
ing innovation (bid ( a) and even as
heresy. In 1951, in Delhi, an assembly of
the ( ulama, the Jamiyyat al-
( ulama, pas-
sed a fatwa against him, and in 1976 a
further fatwa was published, designating
him a heretic. Despite such opposition,
Mawdudi continues to be a major influ-
ence on the thinking of the Muslim
world, and his writings provide at least
one blueprint for radical Islamists.
