Jamaat-e-Islami, or Jamaat as it is commonly known, 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. 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, and secularism as well as economic practices such as offering bank interest. 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'. 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.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani was an Islamist, Pro-Pakistan Kashmiri-separatist leader in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, regarded as the father of the Kashmiri jihad.
Solidarity Youth MovementKerala is the youth wing of the Islamic organisation Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in the state of Kerala in India. The movement's stated objective is to "liberate the generation of youths from moral bankruptcy and debauchery and to transform them into a radical vanguard fighting for the betterment of society". It, along with its parent organisation Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, has shared common ground with India's left-wing parties on issues related to Indo-US relations and globalisation. The organisation has brought to mainstream the issues concerned with the marginalized communities. Solidarity Youth Movement have also initiated legal battles against controversial legislations like NIA.
Hizbul Mujahideen, also spelled Hizb-ul-Mujahidin, is a Pakistan-affiliated Islamist militant organisation that has been engaged in the Kashmir insurgency since 1989. It aims to separate Kashmir from India and merge it with Pakistan, and is thus one of the most important players in the region as it evolved the narrative of the Kashmir conflict by steering the struggle away from nationalism and towards jihadism.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is an Islamic organisation in India, founded as an offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami, which split into separate independent organisations in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh following the Partition of India in 1947.
The Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir or Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir (JIJK) is an Islamic political party based in the city of Srinagar in the Indian administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is distinct from the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. The organisation's stated position on the Kashmir conflict is that Kashmir is a disputed territory and the issue must be sorted as per UN or through tripartite talks between India, Pakistan and representatives of Kashmir.
Syed Jalaluddin Umri was an Islamic scholar and writer. He was the Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind from 2007 to 2019.
Syed Sadatullah Husaini is the president (Amir) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) and Vice President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) based in Hyderabad. A former two-time National President of Students' Islamic Organisation of India, he has been heading the JIH's Study and Research Department as its director. He is a regular columnist in various magazines, journals, and newspapers writing on current issues and state of affairs.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, previously known as Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, or Jamaat for short, is the largest Islamist political party in Bangladesh. On 1 August 2013, the Bangladesh Supreme Court cancelled the registration of the Jamaat-e-Islami, ruling that the party is unfit to contest national elections.
H Abdur Raqeeb is the General Secretary of Indian Center for Islamic Finance, New Delhi and has been promoting the concept of interest-free banking throughout India Since last two decades. His aims to get close all section of Society in main Banking Stream through interest free Banking System for this Novel cause he is working as one man army. To Introduce Interest Free Banking System in India He travelled across Many Countries and learn working model of Interest Free Banking, Met with Professional and Policy Makers across India and abroad. He is founder member of All India Muslim Personal law Board. He is also the Editor of Tamil fortnightly Samarasam.
Shaikh Muhammad Karakunnu is an Indian author, Islamic Scholar and State Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Kerala chapter. He has authored more than Ninety books and has delivered numerous speeches on Islam, Muslim and Jamat-e-islami. He served as the Director of the Kerala-based Islamic Publishing House.
Jamaat-e-Islami is an Islamist movement founded in 1941 in British India by the Islamist author, theorist, and socio-political philosopher, Syed Abul Ala Maududi. It developed under the umbrella of Darul Uloom Deoband.
Muslim Jamaath is a Kerala based Islamic organization In India, under the supervision of the All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama. This body acts as an apex body of various other organization and institutions which were following the ideologies of samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama
Malik Motasim Khan is Member of Central Advisory Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He was the President of Andhra Pradesh Chapter of Welfare Party of India. He was the Ameer-e-Halqa of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa during 2007–2011. He was also the National President of SIO for two terms from 1995 to 1999.
City of Pearls: A Tale of Neglected People is a 2011 documentary film produced by the Hyderabad chapter of Students Islamic Organisation of India. The 38-minute documentary captures the paradox between the high-rise buildings, malls, flyovers and the abject poverty and lack of basic amenities in the slums of Hyderabad.
The Sunni Students Federation is an Islamic students' organisation in India. Originated in Kerala in 1973 under the patronage of Sheikh Abubakr Musliyar. It is affiliated to All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama and Kerala Muslim Jamaath. SSF will hold the golden fifty National Conference at Mumbai on 2023 November 24, 25 and 26.
Lubna Sarwath is an Indian social activist and economist who fought the 2014 Indian general election from Hyderabad as Aam Aadmi Party candidate.
Umar Khalid is an Indian student activist, a former research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, former leader of Democratic Students' Union (DSU) in JNU. He was allegedly involved in the Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition row and is an accused under the UAPA law. Khalid is also associated with United Against Hate, a campaign founded along with Nadeem Khan in July 2017 in response to the series of lynchings.
Fraternity Movement is an indian student-youth party in India working for strengthening democracy, social justice and fraternity. It is a growing student organization in many regions of India especially in West Bengal, Kerala and Delhi. The Fraternity Movement is directly linked to Welfare Party of India and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.
K. A. Siddique Hassan was an Islamic scholar, social worker, change-maker and orator from Kerala, India. He was the chief architect of 'Vision 2016' under the aegis of the Human Welfare Foundation (HWF) and Assistant Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.
