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NOTES. Editor's Foreword 1 Report of the Court of Inquiry Constituted Under Punjab Act II of 1954 to. Inquire into the Punjab Disturbances of 1953 (Lahore: Government Printing. House, Punjab, 1954), 184. Justice Mr Muhammad Munir (president) and. Justice Mr M. R. Kayani (member) constituted the committee. Further references to the report will be shown as Munir Commission Report. . Chapter 1 1 See P. Schaff, Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1st series, vol. IV (Buffalo, 1887). 2 The proclamation of the Unity of God and the propagation of Islam and the. Holy Prophet Muhammadsa. . Chapter 2 1 Maulana Abul Ala Maududi, the amir (head) of Jamaati Islami until his death, spent his early life in the former princely Indian state of Hyderabad. The young Maududi left school before completing his secondary education because of his father's death. For some time he worked as editor of the AlJamiyat of Delhi, the newspaper of the Jamiyat Ulamai Hind. In 1927 he resigned his editorship and, having worked so long with the Deoband ulema, he decided to devote himself to the study of theology. He was self-taught in theology, Arabic and English. Despite his great learning, immense knowledge and forceful style of Urdu, which has all the ingredients of scholarship, his critics - especially ulema of the Deoband and Lucknow schools - say that his lack of training in theological discipline was his great weakness. In 1941 the Maulana founded the Jamaati Islami and assumed its leadership. He criticised the Jamiyat Ulamai Hind for its composite nationalist theory which exposed Muslim India to the grave dangers of religio-cultural absorption into. Hinduism, and at the same time he assailed Qaid-i-Azam's Muslim nationalism as no less dangerous than Congress nationalism. To him, it made no difference whether the irreligious Muslims of India survived in the form of Pakistan or not (Musalman aur Maujudah Siyasi Kashmakash,. Pathankot, 1946, 6-7). 136