Atlas / Organisations / Jamaat-e-Islami
Jamaat-e-Islami
Maududi · 1941– · Pakistan, Bangladesh, India · Islamist · Electoral party · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
The state as an instrument of divine sovereignty, built by a disciplined vanguard of the pious rather than by mass conversion.
Economic model
Interest-free banking, zakat welfare, charitable networks, small-trader base.
Organisation of powers
Contests elections where permitted; internally cadre-based with a tightly controlled membership.
Reading note
Maududi's writings are the single largest doctrinal influence on twentieth-century Sunni Islamism, including on movements that later rejected his electoralism.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −01
Coded −1: interest-free banking and zakat welfare with a small-trader base.
- Documented act or statuteThe movement built charitable and educational networks as its principal presence.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +09
Coded +9: divine sovereignty over the whole of social life.
- Programme textMaududi's theory of hakimiyya makes God's sovereignty the constitutive political fact.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +06
Coded +6: a disciplined cadre vanguard that contests elections where permitted.
- Documented act or statuteMembership is tiered with a probationary rank, and the party has contested Pakistani elections since 1951.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +04
Coded +4: a national organisation within a pan-Islamic frame.
- Documented act or statuteSeparate parties operate in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India under a shared doctrine.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +07
Coded +7 after the v2.2 review: confessional and acquirable, and tied to blasphemy statute.
- Documented act or statuteThe Bangladeshi wing was barred from elections in 2013 over its charter's incompatibility with the constitution.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +01
Coded +1: electoral in most contexts, with a documented wartime paramilitary role.
- Documented act or statuteIts Bangladeshi leaders were convicted by a war crimes tribunal for 1971 killings.
Where it came from, and what came after
- takes its doctrine fromMuslim Brotherhood
Maududi and al-Banna developed the vanguard model in parallel and read each other.
- gave doctrine toTaliban
The Deobandi seminary network in Pakistan trained much of the movement's leadership.
Scores that have been revised
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
- Muslim Brotherhood1.7
- Iraqi Shia Party Blocs2.6
- Law and Justice2.8
- National Rally3.2
- AUR3.3
- Apartheid Nationalism4.7
Countries
Bangladesh · India · Pakistan
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