Hisham Kabbani

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Sheikh Hisham Kabbani

Muhammad Hisham Kabbani ( Arabic محمد هشام قباني, DMG Muḥammad Hišām Qabbānī ; born 1945 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is an Islamic scholar and Sufi - Sheikh from the Naqshbandi - Haqqani - Sufi Order of Lebanese origin in the United States . His students include the former world boxing champion Muhammad Ali and the former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono .

biography

He studied chemistry at the American University of Beirut and obtained a degree in Islamic law in Damascus . At the request of Sheikh Nazım Kıbrısi , he moved to the United States in 1990.

He is the co-founder and chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America , chairman of the American Muslim Assistance , founder of Kamilat , an international Muslim women's organization, chairman of the As-Sunnah Foundation of America, and founder and president of Muslim Magazine . In 2009 he was listed on the list of 500 most influential Muslims by the Prince al-Walid-bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Jordan.

Controversy

In 1999, Kabbani came into conflict with various organizations such as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) after publishing a statement stating that 80 percent of the Over 3,000 mosques in the US have been taken over by extremist ideologues. In the April 2016 issue of its Dabiq magazine, IS called him a renegade ("Murtadd").

Works (selection)

  • Encyclopedia of Islamic Doctrine and Beliefs
  • In the realm of angels: reports of encounters between man and heavenly beings from the past and present and about those promised to us for the future. Spohr Publishers Limited, 2010
  • The Naqshbandi Sufi Way: History and Guidebook of the Saints of the Golden Chain. 1995 Kazi Publications Inc.
  • The Way of the Masters: History and Legacy of the Supreme Grand Sheikhs of the Naqshbandī Order. Spohr Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-9963-40-105-5 .
  • Classical Islam and the Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition , Islamic Supreme Council of America (2004), ISBN 1-930409-23-0 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)

literature

  • Erik S. Ohlander: "Kabbani, Muhammad Hisham", in: Edward E. Curtis: Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History . 2010, p. 319 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search)

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Erik S. Ohlander, p. 319
  2. ↑ Edited by Prof. John Esposito and Prof. Ibrahim Kalin - The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World - The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center, 2009 (Online at thebook.org thebook.org )
  3. ^ The Islamic Supreme Council of America: Islamic Extremism: A Viable Threat to US National Security . January 7, 1999
  4. ↑ Kill the Imams of the West
personal data
SURNAME Kabbani, Hisham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kabbani, Muhammad Hisham (full name); محمد هشام قباني (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese-American Islamic scholar and Sufi sheikh
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut , Lebanon