Showing posts with label Religious Scholars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religious Scholars. Show all posts

Saturday, 6 August 2011

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (Tamil: ரவி ஷங்கர்), commonly known as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Ravi Shankar was born Ratnam, was born May 13, 1956) is the spiritual leader and founder of Art of Living Foundation (founded 1982), whose purpose is to relieve stress as well as individual and social problems, and violence. It is an organization made up of the advisory role of UNESCO. It 'also often referred to simply as "Sri Sri" (honorific), or Guruji, and Gurudev,. He also founded in 1997, the Geneva-based charity, and 14 The Dalai Lama, the International Association for Human Values, an NGO involved in relief work and rural development, and aims at promoting global common values.

Zakir Abdul Karim Naik

Zakir Abdul Karim Naik
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik was born on 18 October 1965 in Mumbai, India. He attended St. Peter's High School in Mumbai. Later he enrolled at Kishinchand Chellaram College, before studying medicine at Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital and later the University of Mumbai, where he obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS). His wife, Farhat Naik, works for the women's section of the IRF.

In 1991 he started working in the field of Dawah, and founded the IRF. Naik says he was inspired by Ahmed Deedat, an Islamic preacher, having met him in 1987.(Naik is sometimes referred to as "Deedat plus", a label given to him by Deedat himself.)Naik says that his goal is to "concentrate on the educated Muslim youth who have become apologetic about their own religion and have started to feel the religion is outdated."He considers it a duty of every Muslim to remove perceived misconceptions about Islam and to counter what he views as the Western media's anti-Islamic bias in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks (also known as 9/11) in the United States.Some of his articles are published in magazines such as Islamic Voice.

Anthropologist Thomas Blom Hansen has written that Naik's style of memorizing the Quran and Hadith literature in various languages, and his related missionary activity, has made him extremely popular in Muslim and non-Muslim circles.Many of his debates are recorded and widely distributed in video and DVD media and online. His talks are usually recorded in English and broadcast on weekends on several cable networks in Mumbai's Muslim neighborhoods, and on the Peace TV channel, which he co-produces.Topics he speaks on include: "Islam and Modern Science", "Islam and Christianity", and "Islam and secularism".

Naik is the founder of the Islamic International School in Mumbai.

Javed Ahmed Ghamidi

Javed Ahmed Ghamidi
Javed Ahmed Ghamidi (Urdu: جاوید احمد غامدی) (b. 1951) is a well-known Islamic theology in Pakistan, a scholar and exegete of the Qur'an, and educator. Former member of the Jamaat-e-Islami, who extended the work of his mentor, Amin Ahsan Islahi.Ghamidi is the founder of Al-Mawrid The Institute of Islamic Sciences and its sister organization in Denmark Sara.He a member of the Council Islamic ideology since January 28, 2006, a constitutional body responsible for providing legal advice on matters of Islamic Pakistan, the government and parliament. He has also taught at the Academy of officials from 1980 to 1991.He is a spiritual movement similar to running Wastiyya Egypt, popular electronic media in Pakistan.

Speech Ghamidi is primarily a second away from the traditionalists and the Jamaat-e-Islami and its secession groups other.In Ghamidi reasons, there is no reference to Western sources, human rights, or the current philosophy of crime and punishment. He will lead to decisions that are similar to Islamic modernists on the subject, but he will never go away from the traditional structure.

Dr. Israr Ahmed

Dr. Israr Ahmed
 Israr Ahmed (Urdu: اسرار احمد, April 26, 1932 - April 14, 2010) was a Pakistani Islamic theologian followed especially in South Asia and also among the South Asian diaspora in the Middle East, Western Europe and North America . Born in Hissar (Haryana today), India, the second son of a government official, he is the founder of Tanzeem-e-Islami, an offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami. He hosts a daily show on television of Peace, a program of 24 hours the International Islamic channel, and until recently Ary QTV.

His supporters have described, he had spent "the last 40 years," actively "for reviving the Qur'an-centered Islamic perennial philosophy and world view" with "the ultimate goal is to create a true Islamic state, or the system of Khilafah ". Ahmed was skeptical about the effectiveness of the "parliamentary politics, exchange of ideas" to create "Islamic political and socio-economic system" due to the introduction of the system is a "revolutionary process".