In recent decades the terms 'Islamization of Knowledge' and 'Islamic Science' have been frequently used and have caused a lot of controversy. But the history of the subject goes much further. In 1930s, Mawdudi criticized the newly established Aligarh Muslim University and called for the Islamization of knowledge:
It is, therefore, high time for the Muslims to get rid of the old and stale system of education as well as the modern system of secular orientation and work out a separate system of education of their own, as modern in nature as possible, making best use of modern science and techniques but with undiluted Islamic orientation. This plan should be exe-