Hisham Kabbani
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Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani (born in Lebanon) is a prominent but controversial American Sufi Muslim, and a scholar of sufi Islam. The Shaykh has spent his life advocating an understanding of Islam as fundamentally and inviolably based on peace, tolerance, respect and love. He believes these principles to be authentically inherent to mainstream traditional Islam.
[edit] Studies and activity
He has been a resident of the United States since 1991, and has opened thirteen Sufi Centres there and in Canada.
Shaykh Kabbani has lectured at many universities, including the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as at many spiritual and religious centers throughout North America, Europe, the Far East, and the Middle East.
He is on the boards of a number of organisations that promote the tolerance and moderation inherent in traditional Islam:
§ Co-Chair, Council of Muslim Leadership
§ Chairman, Islamic Supreme Council of America
§ President, The Muslim Magazine
§ U.S. Leader, Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi Order
§ Chairman, As-Sunnah Foundation of America
§ Chairman, Kamilat Muslim women’s organization
§ Advisor, UnityOne, an organization devoted to ending gang violence.
§ Advisor, Human Rights Council, U.S.A. for supporting the establishment of human rights and freedom in all nations.
§ Advisor, American Islamic Association of Mental Health Providers.
[edit] Major Achievements
Accomplishments in Europe, the Far East and the Middle East
§ Works closely with the government and people of Muslim nations around the world to restore traditional Islamic practices and prevent the increase of religious radicalism.
§ Co-founder of the Haqqani Worldwide Educational Foundation center for teaching Islamic Divine Law and spirituality in London, England.
§ Speaker and advisor, Inter-Religious Organization, Singapore.
§ Working at the highest political levels to support relief efforts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, his native Lebanon and Somalia.
§ Supporting peace initiatives in the Middle East, Bosnia, Kashmir, Afghanistan and Kosovo.
§ Working with international organizations to establish the International Day of the Orphan as a globally-observed day for highlighting the plight of orphans, foster children and child victims of abuse.
§ Chairman of the highly successful International Islamic Unity Conference, whose second conference took place in Washington, DC from August 7-9, 1998.
§ Co-developer and former General Manager of the Jeddah Medical Center in Saudi Arabia.
§ Was invited by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to attend the opening of his first healing clinic in October 1998.
§ Met with Devi Gowda, former PM of India, and C.M. Ibrahim, at that time Aviation Minister of India, when they were all guests at the 7th annual conference of the IMRC in San Jose, 1997.
