Tareq Al Suwaidan

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Tareq Al Suwaidan

Sheikh Tareq Al Suwaidan ( Arabic طارق سويدان, DMG Ṭāriq as-Suwaydān ; * 1953 in Kuwait) is a Kuwaiti entrepreneur and television personality. He is one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait. He is Chief Executive Officer and owner of the Gulf Innovation Group in Kuwait and General Director of the ar-Risāla satellite television channel (الرسالة / ar-risāla  / 'The Message', al-Resalah Satellite TV ) ibid. His television shows achieve high ratings in the Middle East. Sweidan is also prominent as a motivational speaker and as the author of several books on Islam.

Life

He studied engineering with a focus on petroleum engineering in the United States, first at the University of Pennsylvania and later at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.

In 2006 he was one of the signatories of an open letter from Islamic scholars to Pope Benedict XVI. after his Regensburg speech .

He was 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" (Engl. "Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ... ") (October 13, 2007).

In 2009 he was included in the list of the 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Prince al-Walid-bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Jordan .

literature

  • Safaa M. Afifi El-Sheikh: Western Churches in the Image of Contemporary Egyptian and Arab Religious Scholars: A Contribution to the Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI. (Doctorate from HU zu Berlin) Dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2012 ( Online ; PDF; 1.8 MB) (see pp. 154–163: Dr. Tarek al-Suwaidan)

Web links

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ viaf.org . - Safaa M. Afifi El-Sheikh, p. 155, with different information.
  2. ↑ themuslim500.com: Sheikh Dr Tariq Sweidan ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / themuslim500.com
  3. ↑ islam.de: Open letter to His Holiness Pope XVI. (PDF; 224 kB)
  4. ↑ acommonword.com: A common word between us and you (summarized short form) (PDF; 186 kB)
  5. ↑ yale.edu ( Yale University ; PDF; 4.8 MB)
Tareq Al Suwaidan (alternative names of the lemma)
Ṭāriq al-Suwaydān; Tariq Sweidan; Tareq Al-Suwaidan; Tarek al-Suwaidan;طارق سويدان
personal data
SURNAME Suwaidan, Tareq Al
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suwaydān, Ṭāriq al-; Sweidan, Tariq; Suwaidan, Tareq Al-; Suwaidan, Tarek al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kuwaiti entrepreneur and TV personality
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuwait