Zuhair Mahmood

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Zuhair Mahmood (born July 1, 1952 in Mosul , Iraq ) is an Iraqi-French nuclear scientist and a figure of Islam in France and Europe .

He grew up in Iraq and trained in nuclear science. In the 1980s, Saddam Hussein sent him to France as part of a cooperation agreement between France and Iraq .

In France he met Ahmed Mahmoud (born in 1947 in Egypt ) and Mohamed Khaldoun Bacha (born in 1955 in Syria ) and the three of them founded the Union des Organizations Islamiques de France (abbr. UOIF; German: Union of Islamic Organizations in France ) in 1983 "; . English Union of Islamic Organizations of France ).

He was Imam of the Friday Mosque of Nevers (2002).

In 1992 Zuhair Mahmood founded the Institut Européen des Sciences Humaines (abbr. IESH; Eng. "European Institute for the Humanities"), a training institute for the Arabic language and sciences of Islam, from Château-Chinon , a training center for imams for Europe , and leads since then this facility. He also teaches on " Sira " (Prophetic Tradition) and Muslim reform movements.

Zuhair is also the chairman of the Comité de bienfaisance et de secours aux Palestiniens (abbreviation CPSP; Eng . "Charity Committee for the Palestinians").

He was one of the signatories of the Amman Message ( Amman Message ).

Publications (selection)

  • Etude, réalisation et essais d'un ensemble réactimètre simulateur à grande dynamique. Strasbourg: Mahmood Z, 1983. (Thèse doct.-ing .: Sciences: Strasbourg 1: 1983; 459)
  • Le Moine, l'Imam et le Rabbin: conversations co-écrit par Benoit M. Billot, Zuhair Mahmood, Michel Serfaty, 2002, ed.Calmann-Lévy

See also

References and footnotes

  1. bbc.co.uk: France's Islamic heartland - accessed November 30, 2017
  2. Information on Zuhair Mahmood in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on November 30, 2017.
  3. LES ENSEIGNANTS ET INTERVENANTS DE L'IESH ( IESH ) - accessed November 30, 2017
  4. cbsp.fr: Informations générales - accessed on November 30, 2017
  5. worldcat.org

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