Quran Ki Chaar Buniyadi Istlahein

The book has been criticized for giving birth to so-called political Islam. In his 1963 Urdu book "Taebeer Ki Ghalti" (The Error of Interpretation), the Islamic scholar Wahiduddin Khan accused the author of presenting his own self-created meanings of the Arabic terms that are not found in writings of conventional academics and mainstream commentators.^[4] Another scholar Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, in his 1978 Urdu book "Asar e Hazir Mein Deen Ki Tafheem o Tashreeh", also criticized the interpretations described in Maududi's Quran Ki Chaar Buniyadi Istlahein.^[5]

Quran Ki Chaar Buniyadi Istlahein is one of 20 books of Maududi that were banned in Saudi Arabia in 2015 by the Saudi Ministry of Education.^[6]