Issam El-Bashir

Sheikh Issam El-Bashir ( Arabic عصام البشير, DMG ʿIṣām al-Bašīr ; * 1956 in Tindelti , Sudan ) is an Islamic clergyman and politician of the Muslim Brotherhood . He received his PhD in Islamic theology from the Islamic University of Omdurman in Sudan. He was General Secretary of the International Moderation Center (IMC) (المركز العالمي للوسطية) in Kuwait and former Minister for Religious Affairs in Sudan. He taught at various universities.

He is a member of the board of directors of the International Union of Muslim Scholars and many other bodies and institutions, including the Institut Européen des Sciences Humaines (IESH) and the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR).

He was one of the signatories of the Amman Message ( Amman Message ) and one of the 138 signatories of the open letter a common word between us and you ( Engl. A Common Word Between Us and You ), the personalities of Islam to "leaders of Christian churches everywhere “(" Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ... ") sent (October 13, 2007).

In 2009 and 2012 he was listed in 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 .

He is the author of several works on Wasatiyya ( wasatiyya  /وسطية), an Islam of the middle, beyond extremism and fanaticism .

See also

• Hasan at-Turabi
• Umar al-Bashir

References and footnotes

1. ↑ igd-online.de ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ wasatiaonline.net ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . - Translated into German as “Wassatiya Institut”, see z. B. (PDF; 4.2 MB).  
3. ↑ An organization established by the Higher Committee for the Promotion of Moderation of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs. ( themuslim500.com ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) 
4. ^ Website of the "International Union of Muslim Scholars" ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS), also known as the International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS). 
5. ↑ igd-online.de ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ acommonword.com: A common word between us and you (summarized short form) (PDF; 186 kB)
7. ↑ yale.edu (PDF; 4.8 MB) & The Muslim 500  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ A term coined and popularized by Yusuf al-Qaradawi ; see. Bettina Gräf: In Search of a Global Islamic Authority . In: Isim Review 15, Leiden 2005, p. 47.
9. ^ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2008 ( Memento from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.2 MB), p. 206

Web links

• igd-online.de: Report on the 33rd annual conference of the IGD ( Islamic Community in Germany )
• themuslim500.com: HE Dr Issam El Bashir
• globalmbreport.org: Recommended Reading: Interview With Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood Leader (The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report)
• globalmbreport.org: Kuwaiti Center To Open In Russia (The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report)
• gettyimages.de: Sudanese Cheikh Issam Al Bashir, member