Islamic Society of North America
The Islamic Society of North America ( ISNA ) or Islamic Society of North America is an umbrella organization for Muslims in North America . Its headquarters are in Plainfield , Indiana , in the United States of America . The official founding date of ISNA is 1982, when four organizations, including the Muslim Students' Association (MSA), founded in 1963, merged under the influence of the growing Muslim community . Ingrid Mattson and Mohamed Magid were presidents of ISNA, and Azhar Azeez became its president in 2014. In addition to its main task of being a common mouthpiece for the call to Islam ( daʿwa ), according to the Iranian Radio , one of the goals of this organization is the establishment and management of Islamic all-day schools and the support and promotion of the Muslim family.
Ihsan Bagby was found that the ISNA their "inspiration and guidance" ( inspiration and guidance ) always with the intellectual leaders of modern Islamic movement - the Pakistani Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979), the Egyptians Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) and Hasan al-Bannā (1906–1949) - searched.
The American high school teacher and former ISNA President Ingrid Mattson is one of the signatories of the Amman Message ( Amman Message ) and together with Sayyid Muhammad Syeed, the National Director of the Office of Interfaith & Community Alliance , one of the signatories of A Common Word between Us and You ( A Common Word between Us and You ).
In 2007, the ISNA, the Fiqh Council of North America, and the European Council for Fatwa and Research announced that they would adopt a calculation-based calendar with the same parameters as the Umm-al-Qurā Calendar to determine (well in advance) the beginning of all lunar months (and thus the days associated with all religious customs). This was intended as a first step towards future unification of the Muslim calendar around the world.
Senator Jon Kyl and journalist Steven Emerson accuse ISNA of being close to terrorist groups.
Affiliated organizations
According to the April 1998 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs , the Islamic Society of North America has over 300 affiliates and connections to approximately 2,000 mosques and community centers in the United States and Canada. The organizations affiliated with ISNA include:
- Federation of Islamic Association (FIA)
- American Muslim Mission (AMM)
- North American Islamic Trust (NAIT)
- Islamic Teaching Center (ITC)
- American Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE)
- American Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS)
- Islamic Medical Association (IMA)
- Muslim Community Association (MCA)
- Foundation of International Development
- Canadian Islamic Trust (CIT)
- Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA)
- Malaysian Islamic Study Group (MISG)
- Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA)
- Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)
- American Muslim Mission (AMM)
- Muslim American Society (MAS)
President
- 2006-2010 Ingrid Mattson
- 2010- Mohamed Magid
- 2014- Azhar Azeez
See also
literature
- Larry Poston: Islamic Daʿwah in the West: Muslim Missionary Activity and the Dynamics of Conversion to Islam. Oxford 1992 ( partial online view )
- Yushau Sodiq: An Insider's Guide to Islam . 2010 ( partial online view )
Web links
- Homepage - isna.net
References and footnotes
- ↑ The Islamic Culture and Civilization Throughout History (Part 101) - ( Broadcast manuscript of the Broadcasting of the Islamic Republic of Iran from November 9, 2014)
- ↑ after Larry Poston, p. 79
- ↑ cf. The Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia on the website of the University of Utrecht
- ↑ Khalid Chraibi: Can the Umm al Qura calendar serve as a global Islamic calendar? (tabsir.net) - accessed March 30, 2017; see. zaharuddin.net
- ^ Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (April 1998) ("300 affiliates and links with some 2,000 mosques and community centers in the US and Canada") - accessed March 30, 2017
- ↑ Yushau Sodiq, S. 486th
- ↑ Mentioned twice in the cited source. - See above.
Coordinates: 39 ° 39 ′ 46.7 " N , 86 ° 23 ′ 8" W.