Searchable Online Version Maududi, Al-Muṣṭalaḥāt al-Arbaʿa fī l-Qurʾān المصطلحات الأربعة في القرآن لأبو الأعلى المودودي

Abū al-Aʿlā Maududi (d. 1979 CE / 1399 AH) is one of the best known names in Islamic scholarship in modern history. He was an Indian-Pakistani scholar, philosopher and political activist. His Muṣṭalaḥāt is a study of four terms that he considers the foundations of all Quranic philosophy, the terms being al-ilāh ("deity", "god"), al-rabb ("the Lord"), al-dīn ("creed", "religion") and al-ʿibāda ("worship").