IJT was influenced mainly by the works of the late Syed Abul-Ala Maududi and Maulana Naeem Siddiqui.

From the 1970s until about the early 1990s it was also the main ideological engine powering the concept of political Islam on the country's university and college campuses.

[12] Its main fields are the modern educational institutions, i.e. colleges and universities across Pakistan, though many local sub-divisions are active at the school level, like Bazm-e-Sathi (Sindh),[13][14] Bazm-e-Paigham (Punjab),[15][16] Bazm-e-Roshni (AJK & GB),[17] Bazm-e-Shahbaz (Balochistan), Bazm-e-Shaheen (KPK)[18] under the Islamic Society of Children Hobbies.

[19][20] Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba was founded on 23 December 1947 in Lahore by a group of 25 students with the vision of creating an Islamic society based on the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah.

[23] It has a counterpart of the same ideology but with a complete, separate and independent structure and organisation, known as Jamiat Talaba Arabia Pakistan.