Ulama-i Hind , an organization of Muslim religious scholars. [ 11 ] Founding the Jamaat-e-Islami Main article: Jamaat-e-Islami In 1941, Maududi founded Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in British India as a religious political movement to promote Islamic values and practices. After the Partition of India , JI was redefined in 1947 to support an