Kalim Siddiqui

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Kalim Siddiqui (born 1931 in Dondi-Lohara, Central Provinces and Berar , British India , today: Chhattisgarh , India ; died 1996 in Pretoria , South Africa ) was a Pakistani-British Islamic author, economist, political scientist and journalist who in particular became known as a Muslim activist of a political Islam . He was director of the Muslim Institute in London and founder of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain .

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After the founding of Pakistan , he briefly joined the Khilafat movement in Karachi in 1948 and published the newspaper The Independent Leader . In 1954 he emigrated to London, where he worked as a journalist. In the 1960s he graduated with a degree in economics. In 1972 he received his PhD in International Relations from University College London . He founded the Muslim Institute in London in 1972 . He advocated political Islam in his writings and was a supporter of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. He also defended his fatwa against the British-Indian author after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini (who died on June 3, 1989 in Tehran ) Salman Rushdie .

“Kalim Siddiqui, director of the Iranian-backed Muslim Institute, shouted at a meeting: 'I would like every Muslim to raise his hand in agreement with the death sentence on Salman Rushdie. Let the world see that every Muslim agrees that this man should be put away. '”

At its meetings in England, he campaigned for the establishment of an Islamic organization called the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain (British Muslim Parliament) that sat inviting non-Muslims to Islam goal similar to the Jewish Board of Deputies (Engl. Deputies Committee of the British Jews). In 1992 the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain was established.

Works (selection)

  1. Functions of International Conflict - A Socio-economic Study of Pakistan. The Royal Book Company, Karachi 1975.
  2. Conflict, Crisis and War in Pakistan. Macmillan, London / New York 1972.
  3. Issues in the Islamic Movement Volumes I – III.
  4. In Pursuit of the Power of Islam. The Muslim Institute 1996, ISBN 0-905081-58-7 .
  5. Stages of Islamic Revolution - kalimsiddiqui.com (PDF)

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Imam Khomeini's Fatwa on Salman Rushdie Ft. Imam Kalim Siddiqui (June 4, 1989) - youtube.com (accessed December 29, 2016)
  2. ^ After the Rushdie affair, Islam in Britain became fused with an agenda of murder . In: The Guardian . 2006 ( theguardian.com [accessed December 29, 2016]).
  3. ↑ cf. On the edge of history: Dr. Kalim Siddiqui's Stages of Islamic Revolution - icit-digital.org

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personal data
SURNAME Siddiqui, Kalim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ṣiddīqī, Kalīm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Muslim activist of a political Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dondi-Lohara, Central Provinces and Berar , British India , today: Chhattisgarh , India
DATE OF DEATH 1996
Place of death Pretoria , South Africa