Muhammad Mustafa al-ʿAzami
Muhammad Mustafa al-ʿAzami, a leading contemporary hadith scholar recognized for his critique of Orientalist studies of hadith, was born in India in 1932 and educated at Darul Uloom Deoband. He went on to study at Al-Azhar University (M.A., 1955) and the University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1966). He is Professor Emeritus at King Saud University in Riyadh and chaired its Department of Islamic Studies. In 1980, he was the recipient of the prestigious King Faisal International Award for Islamic Studies. He has also served as curator of the National Public Library, Qatar, and acted as Visiting Scholar, Fellow, and Professor respectively at numerous institutes, including Umm al-Qura University, Princeton University, and St. Cross College at the Univ
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Jonathan Andrew Cleveland Brown is an American scholar of Islamic studies. Since 2012, he has been associate professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He holds the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University.
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He has authored several books including Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy, Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World, Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction, and The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim. He has also published articles in the fields of Hadith, Islamic law, Salafism, Sufism, and Arabic language. -
Yahya ibn Sharaf al Nawawi
Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (Arabic: أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي; 1233–1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī (631–676 A.H./1234–1277), was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar.[3] He authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence.[4] Al-Nawawi never married.[5]
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Yahya ibn Sharaf al Nawawi
Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (Arabic: أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي; 1233–1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī (631–676 A.H./1234–1277), was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar.[3] He authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence.[4] Al-Nawawi never married.[5]
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Hamida Mubasshera
হামিদা মুবাশ্বেরা বর্তমানে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের টেম্পল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় অর্থনীতিতে পিএইচডি করছেন। এর আগে মালয়শিয়ার আন্তর্জাতিক ইসলামি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (IIUM) থেকে ইসলামিক ফিনান্সে মাসটার্স করেছেন। ব্যাচেলর করেছেন ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়র ব্যবসায় প্রশাসন ইনস্টিটিউট (IBA) থেকে। প্রাতিষ্ঠানিক ভাবে ইসলাম নিয়ে পড়াশোনা করেছেন ইসলামিক অনলাইন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (IOU) থেকে, সেখানে ইসলামিক স্টাডিজে দ্বিতীয় ব্যাচেলর সম্পন্ন করেছেন। ব্যক্তিগত জীবনে তিনি এক কন্যা সন্তানের জননী।
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হরেক রকমের বই পড়া ও লেখালেখি হামিদা মুবাশ্বেরার কাছে এক ধরনের নেশার মতো। বাবার আকস্মিক মৃত্যু তাকে জীবনের উদ্দেশ্য নিয়ে ভাবতে উৎসাহিত করে। কী হয় মৃত্যুর পর? এটা নিয়ে কোন ধর্ম কী বলে? কেন আমরা মুসলিম? অন্যান্য ধর্মের অনুসারীদের সাথে আমাদের পার্থক্য কোথায়? নিজের শিকড়, আত্মপরিচয় অনুসন্ধানের ব্যাক্তিগত যে -
Edward W. Said
(Arabic Profile إدوارد سعيد)
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Edward Wadie Said was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies. A Palestinian American born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran.
Educated in the Western canon, at British and American schools, Said applied his education and bi-cultural perspective to illuminating the gaps of cultural and political understanding between the Western world and the Eastern world, especially about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East; his principal influences were Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor Adorno.
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ড. আবদুল্লাহ জাহাঙ্গীর ছিলেন একাধারে ইসলামী চিন্তাবিদ, টিভি আলোচক, ইসলামী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের (ইবি) আল হাদিস অ্যান্ড ইসলামিক স্টাডিস বিভাগের অধ্যাপক আলেম, গবেষক ও লেখক ।
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তিনি পিস টিভি, ইসলামিক টিভি, এটিএন ও এনটিভিসহ বিভিন্ন টিভিতে ইসলামের সমসাময়িক বিষয় নিয়ে আলোচনা করতেন। ফরেন টেলিভিশন চ্যানেল আইটিভি ইউএস-এর উপদেষ্টা ছিরেন তিনি । এছাড়াও তিনি দেশ-বিদেশের বিভিন্ন সিম্পোজিয়াম, সেমিনার, মসজিদের খুতবায় ও টিভি আলোচনায় খ্রিস্টান মিশনারিদের দ্বারা প্রতারিত হয়ে দেশের সহজ-সরল মুসলমানদের ধর্মান্তরিত হওয়ার বিষয়গুলো আলোচনা করে জনসচেতনতা তৈরি করে আসছিলেন।
এই বরেণ্য ব্যক্তিত্বের জন্ম হয় ১৯৬১ সালের ১ ফেব্রুয়ারি ঝিনাইদহের ধোপাঘাট গোবিন্দপুর গ্রামে। তার পিতা খোন্দকার আনওয়ারুজ্জামান ও মা বেগম লুৎফুন্নাহার।
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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
أبو حامد الغزالي
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Muslim theologian and philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali of Persia worked to systematize Sufism, Islamic mysticism, and in The Incoherence of the Philosophers (1095) argued the incompatibility of thought of Plato and Aristotle with Islam.
Born in 1058, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī ranked of the most prominent and influential Sunni jurists of his origin.
Islamic tradition considers him to be a Mujaddid, a renewer of the faith who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every century to restore the faith of the ummah ("the Islamic Community"). His works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that al-Ghazali was awarded the honorific title "Proof of Islam" (Hujjat al-Islam).
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Mohammed Faris
Mohammed Faris is an executive coach, author, and speaker who helps professionals and teams connect spirituality to productivity.
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He's the founder of The Productive Muslim Company and the author of the best-selling book, "The Productive Muslim: Where Faith Meets Productivity."
He has delivered seminars and workshops in over 15 countries and has been featured on international media and the TEDx stage.
He regularly speaks at Fortune 500 companies & major Islamic Organizations, including Google, American Airlines, Salesforce, Texas Instruments, Accenture, PWC, and the Islamic Development Bank Group.
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Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri
Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri (صفی الرحمن مبارکپوری; 6 June 1942 – 1 December 2006) was an Indian writer. Mubarakpuri was born in Husainabad, a village one mile deep to the north side of Mubarakpur, Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Mubarakpuri began his studies at home with the Quran under the tutelage of his grandfather and uncle. He then began studies in Arabic and Persian after being admitted to Madrasa Arabia Dar-ut-Taleem. He later moved on to Madrasah Ihyaaul Uloom in Mubarakpur after being admitted there in 1954. Two years after that he joined Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam Maunath Bhanjan (Mau district) for further studies. Upon completion of his seven years of studies, he acquired the Fadilat degree and passed multiple exams to receive the -
Akbar Ali Khan
Akbar Ali Khan (Bengali: আকবর আলি খান) was a Bangladeshi economist and educationist who served as a bureaucrat until 2001. He was the SDO of Habiganj during the Bangladesh Liberation War, when he decided to join the war. Later he served as an official of the Mujibnagar Government. After the independence he joined back the civil serviceand reached to the highest post of Cabinet Secretary and also worked as a university teacher. His book Porarthoporotar Orthoniti (Economics of Other-minding) has been a popular book on economics à la Galbraith.
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Humayun Ahmed
Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. He was the most famous and popular author, dramatist and filmmaker ever to grace the cultural world of Bangladesh since its independence in 1971. Dawn referred to him as the cultural legend of Bangladesh. Humayun started his journey to reach fame with the publication of his novel Nondito Noroke (In Blissful Hell) in 1972, which remains one of his most famous works. He wrote over 250 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh, most of them were number one bestsellers of their respective years by a wide margin. In recognition to the works of Humayun, Times of Indi
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Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران ) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer.
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Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
This author has secondary bangla profile-বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bangali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bangla literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali: Song of the Road which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into the Apu Trilogy films, directed by Satyajit Ray.
The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in the West Bengal state of India, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel ইছামতী. -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Syed Mujtaba Ali
Syed Mujtaba Ali (Bengali: সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী) was a Bengali author, academician, scholar and linguist.
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Syed Mujtaba Ali was born in Karimganj district (in present-day Assam, India). In 1919, he was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore and started writing to the poet. In 1921, Mujtaba joined the Indian freedom struggle and left his school in Sylhet. He went to Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and graduated in 1926. He was among the first graduates of the university. Later, he moved to Kabul to work in the education department (1927–1929). From 1929 to 1932 he studied at the universities in Berlin, London, Paris and Bonn. He earned Ph.D. degree from University of Bonn with a dissertation on comparative religious studies in Khojas in 1932.
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Adania Shibli
Adania Shibli (عدنية شبلي) was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul Starkey, 2012). She was awarded the Young Writer’s Award by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in 2002 and 2004.
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Jonathan A.C. Brown
Jonathan Andrew Cleveland Brown is an American scholar of Islamic studies. Since 2012, he has been associate professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He holds the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University.
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He has authored several books including Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy, Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World, Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction, and The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim. He has also published articles in the fields of Hadith, Islamic law, Salafism, Sufism, and Arabic language. -
Anthony Mascarenhas
Neville Anthony Mascarenhas (10 July 1928 – 3 December 1986) was a Pakistani journalist and author. His works include exposés on the brutality of Pakistan's military during the 1971 independence movement of Bangladesh, The Rape of Bangladesh (1972) and Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood (1986).
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Mascarenhas was born into a Goan Catholic family in Belgaum, and educated in Karachi.He and his wife Yvonne Mascarenhas together had five children. He died in 1986.
Mascarenhas was a journalist who was the assistant editor at The Morning News (Karachi).[3] After collecting information on the atrocities committed in Bangladesh, he realised he could not publish the story in Pakistan and contacted Harold Evans of The Sunday Times. Before the publication of his -
Tim Marshall
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Tim Marshall was Diplomatic Editor and foreign correspondent for Sky News. After thirty years' experience in news reporting and presenting, he left full time news journalism to concentrate on writing and analysis.
Originally from Leeds, Tim arrived at broadcasting from the road less traveled. Not a media studies or journalism graduate, in fact not a graduate at all, after a wholly unsuccessful career as a painter and decorator he worked his way through newsroom nightshifts, and unpaid stints as a researcher and runner before eventually securing himself a foothold on the first rung of the broadcasting career ladder.
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Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf is a co-founder of Zaytuna College, located in Berkeley, California. He is an advisor to Stanford University’s Program in Islamic Studies and the Center for Islamic Studies at Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union. He also serves as a member of the board of advisors of George Russell’s One Nation, a national philanthropic initiative that promotes pluralism and inclusion in America. In addition, he serves as vice-president for the Global Center for Guidance and Renewal, which was founded and is currently presided over by Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah, one of the top jurists and masters of Islamic sciences in the world. Recently, Hamza Yusuf was ranked as “the Western world’s most influential Islamic scholar” by The 500 Most Influent
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Ahmad Von Denffer
From 1972 to 1978 he studied Islamic Studies and Ethnology at the University of Mainz. From 1978 to 1984 he was a research associate of the "Islamic Foundation" in Leicester (England), the Islamist Pakistani Jamaat-e-Islami and the teachings of Maududi stands close. It was developed by Khurram Murad directed, wrote the later of common Denffer books. Since 1984 he has been advisor for German-speaking affairs of Islamic Center of Munich, whose director then Mahdi Akef was a subsequent supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. [1] From Denffer is editor of the magazine "Al-Islam".
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In 1984 he became a founding member of the "International Islamic Charitable Foundation" in Kuwait. [2] 1986-1988 and from 1993 to 2011 he was chairman of "helping Mu -
Muhammad Iqbal
Sir Allama Mohammad Iqbal also known as Allama Iqbal was born in 1877 in Sialkot, Punjab, in British Ruled India, now Pakistan, and was educated in the local school and college in Sialkot, before going on the university in Lahore. There he studied Arabic and philosophy as an undergraduate, then in 1899 did an M.A. in philosophy (being ranked first in the Punjab, and awarded a Gold Medal). He was appointed to a Readership in Arabic at the Oriental College in Lahore, and over the next few years became well known as a poet, as well as writing his first book (in Urdu), The Knowledge of Economics (1903).
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In 1905 he travelled to Europe to continue his philosophical studies, first at Cambridge, then at Munich, where he obtained his doctorate with a -
James Allen
The James Allen Free Library
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Allen was 15 when his father, a businessman, was robbed and murdered. He left school to work full-time in several British manufacturing firms to help support the family. He later married Lily L. Allen and became an executive secretary for a large company. At age 38, inspired by the writings of Leo Tolstoy, he retired from employment. Allen — along with his wife and their daughter, Nohra — moved to a small cottage in Ilfracombe, Devon, England to pursue a simple life of contemplation. There he wrote for nine years, producing 19 works. He also edited and published a magazine, "The Light of Reason".
Allen's books illustrate the use of the power of thought to increase personal capabilities. Although he never achieved -
Robert Greene
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Best-selling author and public speaker, Robert Greene was born in Los Angeles. He attended U.C. California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received a degree in classical studies. He has worked in New York as an editor and writer at several magazines, including Esquire; and in Hollywood as a story developer and writer.
Robert has lived in London, Paris, and Barcelona; he speaks several languages and has worked as a translator. In 1995 he was involved in the planning and creation of the art school Fabrica, outside Venice, Italy. There he met Joost Elffers, the New York book packager and discussed with him his idea for a book on power and manipulation, th -
Ahmad Von Denffer
From 1972 to 1978 he studied Islamic Studies and Ethnology at the University of Mainz. From 1978 to 1984 he was a research associate of the "Islamic Foundation" in Leicester (England), the Islamist Pakistani Jamaat-e-Islami and the teachings of Maududi stands close. It was developed by Khurram Murad directed, wrote the later of common Denffer books. Since 1984 he has been advisor for German-speaking affairs of Islamic Center of Munich, whose director then Mahdi Akef was a subsequent supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. [1] From Denffer is editor of the magazine "Al-Islam".
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In 1984 he became a founding member of the "International Islamic Charitable Foundation" in Kuwait. [2] 1986-1988 and from 1993 to 2011 he was chairman of "helping Mu