Muslim political thinker?
Muslim intellectual!!!
Unless they are willing to consider abolishing Sharia laws in favour of UCC; reforming, revising and revisiting the Scriptures with emphasis on the Meccan verses; outspoken about equal rights, equal citizenship for Muslim women and co-existence with not only the Jews (people of the Book) but Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists as well, they are not by any standard to be considered as "intellectuals" or "thinkers".
Madudi was a thinker, so was Bin Laden and Baghdadi!
Keep foisting regressive, jihadist, Islamist and misogynistic men on us as leaders. That is wat has been the Congress Party's approach since decades - appeasing the Muslim lobby, fulfilling their role as useful idiots and sacrificing the Muslim women, children and progressive, liberal Muslim men who want nothing to do with the Islamist doctrine.