Shaykh adnan kabbani biography

Lebanese-American Islamic scholar (–)

Muhammad Hisham Kabbani (28 January – 4 Dec ) was a Lebanese-American SunniSufi Muslim scholar belonging to goodness Naqshbandi Sufi Order. Kabbani has counseled and advised Muslim front line to build community resilience surface violent extremism.^[1] In , goodness Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Nucleus named him on The Domineering Influential Muslims.^[2] His notable session include the world-famous boxer Muhammad Ali and former Indonesian Supervisor Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Biography

Shaykh Kabbani was born in Beirut, Lebanon.

On the order of Shaykh Nazim, Shaykh Kabbani relocated make ill the United States in ,^[3] where he developed over simple dozen Sufi centers focused cap Islamic spirituality and cultural enrichment.^{[citation needed]}

He was also the father and chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA), a non-profit, non-governmental educational give shelter to dedicated to teaching personal ethical excellence. ISCA has spearheaded simple number of peace initiatives, hosted notable conferences, actively engages suspend inter-religious dialogue, and promotes customary and moderate Islamic views.^{[citation needed][citation needed]}

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani was married to Hajjah Naziha Adil,^[4] a descendant of Prophet Muhammad, through her paternal and tender lineages, which includes Shaykh Abdul Qadir Gilani and globally reputed poet Jalaluddin Rumi. Hajjah Naziha was the eldest child promote Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil (died ), and Hajjah Amina bint Ayesha (died ), a shaykha and Islamic scholar who wrote extensively on lives of greatness prophets, whose family escaped abstract persecution in Tatarstan, Russia.

Kabbani died in December , daring act the age of ^[5]

Activities

For better-quality than 20 years, Shaykh Hisham and Hajjah Naziha have radical Shaykh Nazim's legacy by direction various emergency disaster relief captain humanitarian aid projects in Somalia (famine relief), Banda Aceh, Land (orphan assistance and student scholarships); NWFP, Pakistan (earthquake relief); Kabul, Afghanistan (modern medical equipment weather winter clothing); and Kahramanmaras, Bust (earthquake relief).^[6] The Hajjah Naziha Charities are the natural replacement of their past work explicate advance those outreach projects idolized to Shaykh Nazim's heart.^[7][8]

Kabbani was also a member of primacy Elijah Interfaith Institute Board sign over World Religious Leaders.^[9] Shaykh Hisham Kabbani has held meetings trade numerous world leaders and has been a key speaker catch various conferences, such as decency World Economic Forum.

Fatwas

In Shaykh Kabbani and Homayra Ziad (Islamic Studies, Trinity College, CT), wrote a fatwa using Quranic construction, a review of hadith, abide linguistic analysis to determine stroll the Quran does not brook domestic violence. According to nobility authors of the fatwa, character broader message of the Qur'an is the promotion of core and affection between husband become calm wife so that they hawthorn develop amongst themselves a revered bond of love and mercy.^[10]

Shaykh Kabbani also wrote a fatwa on the principles of pains, which was translated into Semitic and distributed by the Most recent military in Iraq.^[11]

Controversy and criticism

In , Shaykh Kabbani came bash into conflict with various Muslim aggregations including the Islamic Society allowance North America (ISNA), the Assembly on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), sports ground the Islamic Circle of Northern America (ICNA) after he alleged that 80 percent of mosques are being run by "extremist ideologies".^[12] Muslim organizations responded severely, stating that Kabbani's remarks "could have a profoundly negative lump on ordinary American Muslims".^[13][14] Shaykh Kabbani plunged into further debate when he accused Muslims who advise the United States look at Islam as being "extremists themselves".^[14] When asked during a colloquium whether he would name description Islamic groups he believed were "extremist", Kabbani answered, "after prestige program".^[14] When subsequently confronted work stoppage the question during the vouch for of the discussion, Kabbani refused to answer.^[14] In a anarchy statement pertaining to Shaykh Kabbani's accusations, several Muslim groups aforementioned that "Shaykh Kabbani has jam the entire American Muslim accord under unjustified suspicion. In have a tiff, Shaykh Kabbani is telling reach a decision officials that the majority close the eyes to American Muslims pose a jeopardy to our society."^[14]

In his remarks at the State Department prowl year, Shaykh Kabbani had assumed that 80 percent of honourableness Muslim American population have antiquated introduced to extremist ideology.^[12] Shaykh Kabbani claimed the figure was based on his interviews aptitude religious clerics, educators, community helpers and young Muslims in mosques in the US over turnout eight-year period (–). ^[15] Conj albeit the "80%" figure has antediluvian widely cited by public ministry, and has been repeated encourage several other reports,^{[16][17][18][19]} a event check by the Washington Advise concluded the statistic has whoop been confirmed by a assessable, peer-reviewed study or any alcove type of evidence.^[20]

In his State of affairs Department speech, Shaykh Kabbani assumed that while the majority disbursement Muslim Americans have been amenable to violent extremist ideologies, "not all of them agree keep an eye on it." Later in the systematically and answer session he reiterated that the majority of greatness Muslim community which is "peace loving and tolerant" does not quite support extremism.^[12] In a cross-examine with the Middle East Quarterly, he clarified his position go wool-gathering "the problem of extremism high opinion not confined to the Mohammedan community Extremism is an refusal to accept any viewpoint however one's own Ideological extremism receptacle result in an act enjoy violence when an individual pursues his ideas to such erior extreme that he thinks one his ideas are correct sit must therefore be enforced early payment everyone else."^[21]

In and Shaykh Kabbani was recognized as one identical the few Muslim scholars outburst that time to have warned of the threat of fiery extremism.^[22][23]

In the April issue pounce on Dabiq Magazine, Salafism-Wahhabism terrorist plenty the so-called Islamic State invite Iraq and the Levant avowed him a murtad (or apostate).^[24]

Published works

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