Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan جماعت اسلامی پاکستان Islamic Society of Pakistan | |
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| Abbreviation | JI |
| Secretary-General | Ameer-Ul-Azeem |
| Ameer | Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman |
| Naib Ameer | Liaqat Baloch[1] |
| Founder | Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi |
| Founded | 26 August 1941 in Lahore, British India 1947 in Pakistan |
| Headquarters | Multan Road, Mansoorah, Lahore |
| Newspaper | Daily Jasarat |
| Student wing | Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba |
| Youth wing | JI Youth[2] |
| Women's wing | Jamaat-e-Islami Women's Wing |
| Labour wing | National Labour Federation |
| Welfare wing | Alkhidmat Foundation[3] |
| Ideology | Islamism Islamic democracy |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| National affiliation | Tehreek Tahafuz Ayin[4] |
| International affiliation | JI (Hind) JI (Bangladesh) JI (Kashmir) UK Islamic Mission |
| Colors | Green, white, blue |
| Senate | 0 / 100 |
| National Assembly | 0 / 336 |
| Balochistan Assembly | 1 / 65 |
| KPK Assembly | 0 / 128 |
| Sindh Assembly | 1 / 168 |
| Punjab Assembly | 0 / 371 |
| GB Assembly | 0 / 33 |
| Azad Kashmir Assembly | 0 / 49 |
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Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (Urdu: جماعت اسلامی پاکستان, lit. 'Islamic Party of Pakistan'), is an Islamist political party based in Pakistan and founded by Abul Ala Maududi. It is the Pakistani successor to Jamaat-e-Islami, which was founded in colonial India in 1941.[6] JI is a "vanguard party", whose members are intended to be leaders spreading party beliefs and influence. Supporters not thought qualified to be members may become "affiliates", and beneath them are "sympathizers". The party leader is called an "ameer".[7]: 70 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 political party and Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan party respectively).[8][9]
Jamaat-e-Islami 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.[10] At the time of the Indian independence movement, Maududi and the Jamaat-e-Islami actively worked to oppose the partition of India.[11][6][12] In 1947, following the partition of India, the Jamaat split into two organisations, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (the Indian wing).[13][14] Other wings of Jamaat include Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir, founded in 1953, Jamaat-e-Islami Azad Kashmir founded in 1974, and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, founded in 1975.[15]
Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan came under severe government repression in 1948, 1953, and 1963.[16] During the early years of the regime of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Jamaat-e-Islami's position improved and it became seen as the "regime's ideological and political arm", with party members at times holding cabinet portfolios of information and broadcasting, production, and water, power and natural resources.[17][18]
In 1971, during the Bangladesh Liberation War, JI opposed the independence of Bangladesh.[19] However, in 1975, it established Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh with Abbas Ali Khan as the first ameer.[15] Since the early 1980s, it has also developed close links with Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir and acted as the vanguard of the armed insurgency in that province.[20][21]
- ^ "Family from Lahore always 'selected', we weren't: Bilawal". The News International (newspaper). 23 March 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "JI launches it youth wing". Dawn. Pakistan. 16 November 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "Alkhidmat spent Rs 8.2bn in a year on welfare". The News International. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ "Pakistan: Opposition alliance launches protest movement against govt in Balochistan's Pishin". 13 April 2024.
- ^ Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan – via Facebook
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Islam in Pakistan is divided into three tendencies: the Jamaat, which is the Islamist party and which, although it does not have extensive popular roots, is politically influential; the 'deobandi' , administered by fundamentalists and reformist ulamas; and the Barelvi, which recruits from popular and Sufi Islamic circles.
- ^ bin Mohamed Osman, Mohamed Nawab (2009). "The Ulama in Pakistani Politics". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 32 (2): 230–247. doi:10.1080/00856400903049499. ISSN 0085-6401. S2CID 219698819.
- ^ Jackson, Roy (2010). Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam: Authority and the Islamic State. Routledge. ISBN 9781136950360.
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- ^ Guidere, Islamic Fundamentalism (2012), p. 223.
- ^ a b Haqqani, Pakistan between Mosque and Military (2005), p. 171.
- ^ Nasr, Mawdudi and Islamic Revivalism (1996), p. 97.
- ^ Kepel, Jihad, (2002), pp.98, 100, 101
- ^ Haqqani, Pakistan between Mosque and Military (2005), p. 138.
- ^ Schmid (2011), p. 600; Tomsen (2011), p. 240
- ^ Jamal 2009, Chapters 3–4.
- ^ Sirrs 2016, pp. 157–161.