Jamaat-e-Islami

Jamaat-e-Islami is Pakistan’s oldest religious party. The JI ranks among the leading and most influential Islamic revivalist movements and the first of its kind to develop an ideology based on the modern revolutionary conception of Islam in the contemporary world.

Jamaat-e-Islami was founded on 26 August 1941, at Islamia Park, Lahore, before the Partition of India. JI began as an Islamist social and political movement. Seventy-five people attended the first meeting and became the first 75 members of the movement. Maulana Amin Ahsan Islahi, Maulana Naeem Siddiqui, Maulana Muhammad Manzoor Naumanai and Maula Abul Hassan Ali Nudvi were among the founders of Jamat e Islami along with Syed Abul Ala Maududi.