Shabbir Ahmed (writer)

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Shabbir Ahmed is a writer of books in both Urdu and English on history and Islam. He was born in Pakistan in 1947 and currently resides in Florida, United States. A medical doctor by profession, he started his military career in the Pakistan Army under Emergency Commission as a young Captain in 1971. Then he served in Royal Saudi Army (Medical Corps) and became a Brigadier General at an age of just 31. He has since made a new career as an Islamic scholar, and been published in various magazines and newspapers.

Being a young member of the royal medical staff of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, he learned the Arabic language in the Quraish dialect in the 1970s under the auspices of Malik Faisal bin Abdul Aziz and Malik Khalid bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia. This dialect is thought to be similar to the Arabic used in Muhammad's day. Ahmed has travelled and studied the Muslim world and written several books on what Islam is as well as what it is not.


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[edit] Works

Shabbir Ahmed's published works include:

  • The Quran As It Explains Itself: QXP
  • Islam As I Understand
  • Islam: The True History and False Beliefs
  • The Criminals of Islam
  • Thus Speaks The Bible
  • Karbala: Fact or Fiction
  • SIR, YOU SAID IT!
  • When Is The Messiah Coming?
  • Dual Islam
  • Father of The Nation
  • Hashish From Qadian

[edit] The Quran As It Explains Itself

The Quran As It Explains Itself, commonly known as QXP, is an explanatory translation on the Qur'an first published by Galaxy publications in the U.S. in 2003 . Ahmed used a different approach to translate Qur'an according to the classical Arabic, using the cross references from the Qur'an itself without depending on hadith at all.

[edit] The Criminals Of Islam

The Criminals Of Islam is a critique of hadith and the well known figures of Islamic history. It was first published by Galaxy publications in the U.S. in 2000. The book claims that many esteemed Islamic scholars, especially of the hadith, are actually blasphemers, such as Imam Bukhari. The book also criticizes Sufism and most Mullahs (clerics).


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Online Quran Project


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