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Famous Thinkers - Overview

Famous Thinkers Include :-

• Dr Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) called “the most serious Muslim philosophical thinker of modem times.” The frequently used appellation of “poet-philosopher” is thus well deserved. Iqbal was born in Sialkot, in the present-day province of the Punjab in Pakistan, in 1877. In 1898 he obtained a Law degree and in 1899 an MA in philosophy. In his three years of stay abroad, Iqbal obtained a BA from Cambridge (1906), qualified as a barrister at London’s Middle Temple (1906), and earned a PhD from Munich University (1908). Iqbal is one of the best articulated Muslim response to Modernity that the Islamic world has produced in the 20th century. As a political activist/ social reformer - Iqbal died (1938) before the creation of Pakistan (1947), but it was his teaching that “spiritually ... has been the chief force behind the creation of Pakistan.” He is the national poet of Pakistan.

• Abû Rayhân Muhammad ibn Ahmad Bîrunî, (September 15, 973–December 13, 1048), also Known as Beruni, was a Persian mathematician, physicist, scholar, encyclopedist, philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, traveller, historian, pharmacist, and teacher, who contributed greatly to the fields of mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and science. Al-Biruni crater, on the Moon, is named after him. He was the first muslim scholar to study India and Brahminical tradition.

He was born in Khwarazm (formerly north-eastern part of the Persian Samanid dynasty) presently in Khiva, Uzbekistan. He studied mathematics and astronomy under Abu Nasr Mansur. He was a colleague of the fellow Persian Muslim philosopher and physician Ibn Sina, the historian, philosopher and ethicist Ibn Miskawayh, in a university and science center established by prince Abu al-Abbas Ma'mun Khawarazmshah. He also travelled to South Asia with Mahmud of Ghazni who also became his patron, and accompanied him on his campaigns in India (in 1030), learning Indian languages, and studying the religion and philosophy of its people. There, he also wrote his Ta'rikh al-Hind ("Chronicles of India"). Biruni knew the Greek language, the Sanskrit language and possibly Syriac and Berber. He wrote his books in Persian and Arabic, but his native language was Khwarezmian.

 

• Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood, a British Muslim author, served as Head of Religious Studies at William Gee High School, Hull, England. Her original name is Rosalynn Rushbrook.

She married poet George Morris Kendrick in 1964 and then had a son and daughter, but later divorced. In 1990 she remarried a Pakistani Waris Ali Maqsood but later divorced. Before embracing Islam in 1986, she was a Protestant Christian who earned a degree in theology and wrote on Biblical themes for several mainstream publishers. Maqsood has written over forty books on various aspects of religion, including a book on counselling for Muslim teenagers and a volume of poetry. Her most well-known and admired book is The Muslim Marriage Guide. She is a Muslim feminist and has a keen interest in Islamic history and promoting knowledge of Islam to non-Muslims.

• Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (450-505 AH/1058-1111 AD) [aka: al-Ghazzali , Algazel ] is one of the great jurists, theologians and mystics of the 12th Century. He wrote on a wide range of topics including jurisprudence, theology, mysticism and philosophy. He was born in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia, modern day Iran.

• Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little - Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Omaha, Nebraska, May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 in New York City USA) was a human rights activitist, renowned speaker and initially a national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also founder of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity when he switched to orthodox sunni islam. During his life, Malcolm went from being a drug dealer and burglar to one of the most prominent black muslim nationalist leaders in the United States; he was considered by some as a martyr of Islam and a champion of equality. As a militant leader, Malcolm X advocated black pride, economic self-reliance, and identity politics. He ultimately rose to become a world-renowned African American/Pan-Africanist and human rights activist. Following a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964, Malcolm converted to orthodox Islam. Less than a year later he was assassinated in Washington Heights on the first day of National Brotherhood Week.

• Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm (now Khiva, Uzbekistan) and died around 850. His Algebra was the first book on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. Consequently he is considered to be the father of algebra, a title he shares with Diophantus. Latin translations of his Arithmetic, on the Indian numerals, introduced the decimal positional number system to the Western world in the 12th century. He revised and updated Ptolemy's Geography as well as writing several works on astronomy and astrology. His contributions not only made a great impact on mathematics, but on our language as well. The word algebra is derived from al-jabr, one of the two operations used to solve quadratic equations, as described in his book. The words algorism and algorithm stem from algoritmi, the Latinization of his name. His name is also the origin of the Spanish word guarismo and of the Portuguese word algarismo, both meaning digit.

• Ali ibn Abi Talib (599 – 661 CE) was an early Islamic scholar, writer and leader. He is revered by Muslims as the last of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs and as a foremost religious authority on the Qur'an and Islamic jurisprudence. Ali was the cousin of prophet Muhammad, and after marriage to Fatima Zahra, he also became prophet Muhammad's son-in-law.

• Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall, (1875–May 19, 1936), was a Western Islamic scholar, noted as a poetic translator of the Qur'an into English. A convert from Christianity to Islam, Pickthall was a novelist, esteemed by D.H. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, and E.M. Forster, as well as a journalist, headmaster, and political and religious leader. Educated at Harrow, he was born into a comfortable middle class English family, whose roots trace back to a knight of William the Conqueror, Pickthall travelled across many Eastern countries, gaining reputation as Middle-Eastern scholar. A strong advocate of the Ottoman Empire, Pickthall studied the Orient, published articles and novels on the subject, e.g. The meaning of the Holy Qur'an. While under the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, Pickthall published his translation of the Qur'an, becoming the first English translation done by a muslim and authorized by the Al-Azhar University, referred to by the Times Literary Supplement as "a great literary achievement." Pickthall was buried in the Muslim cemetery at Brookwood. His legacy is of particular interest to Muslim converts.

• Abu Hanifa (699-767 CE) - An-Nu’maan ibn Thabit Ibn Zuta Ibn Maah was one of the most important Islamic scholars, jurist and the founder of the Hanafi school of fiqh. Abu Hanifah was a prestigious Mujtahid, Muhaddith, authoritative person, truthfully spoken, abstinent, wise pious and a Tabi'een.

• Martin Lings (Abu Bakr Siraj Ad-Din) (January 24, 1909 – May 12, 2005) was a lifelong student and follower of Frithjof Schuon and a British scholar on Islam, specializing in Sufism. Lings was born in Burnage, Lancashire in 1909 to a Protestant family. The young Lings gained an introduction to travelling at a young age, spending significant time in the United States due to his father's employment.

Lings attended public school at Clifton College and went on to Magdalen College, Oxford (BA (Oxon) English Language and Literature). At Magdalen he was a student of C. S. Lewis, who would become a close friend of his. After graduating from Oxford Lings went to Kaunas Education, in Lithuania, where he taught Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. For Lings himself, however, the most important event that occurred while he was at Oxford was his discovery of the writings of the French Muslim writer and traditionalist philosopher René Guénon and the German spiritual authority and metaphysician Frithjof Schuon. In 1938 Lings went to Basle to make Schuon's acquaintance, and he remained Frithjof Schuon's disciple and expositor for the rest of his life. In 1939 Lings went to Cairo, Egypt in order to visit a friend of his, who was an assistant of René Guénon. Not long after arriving in Cairo, his friend died, and Lings began studying and learned the Arabic language.

Cairo became his home for over a decade; he became an English teacher at the University of Cairo and produced Shakespearean plays annually. Lings married Lesley Smalley in 1944, and lived with his wife in a village near the pyramids. Despite having settled comfortably in Egypt, Lings was forced to leave in 1952 after anti-British disturbances. Upon returning to the United Kingdom, he continued his education, earning a BA in Arabic and a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). His doctoral thesis became a well-received book on Algerian Sufi Ahmad al-Alawi. After completing his doctorate, Lings worked at the British Museum and later British Library, overseeing eastern manuscripts and other textual works, rising to the position of Keeper of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts 1970-73. A writer throughout this period, Lings output increased in the last quarter of his life. While his thesis work on Ahmad al-Alawi had been well-regarded, his most famous work was a biography about Prophet Muhammad, written in 1983, that earned him acclaim in the Muslim world, and prizes from the governments of Pakistan and Egypt. His work was hailed as the "best biography of the prophet in English" at the National Seerat Conference in Islamabad. He also continued travelling extensively, although he made his home in Kent. He died in 2005.

 

• Al-Shafi'i, Arabic jurist (150 AH/767 AD - 204 AH/820 AD). He was active in juridical matters and his teaching eventually led to the school of fiqh named after him. Hence he is often called Imam al-Shafi'i. The Greatest Imam among the Four Imams of Fiqh, in terms of vast knowledge and authority. Scholars gave him the honorific title "Father of Usul Al-Fiqh" (The Patriarch of the Foundation of Islamic Jurisprudence). His full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Idrīs al-Shafi'i. He authored more than 100 books. Al-Risala — The best known book by al-Shafi'i in which he examined usul al-fiqh (sources of jurisprudence): the Qur’an, the Sunnah, qiyas (analogy), and ijma' (scholarly consensus). There is a good modern translation. He also divided innovation into good and bad, based on the hadith of Umar about tarawih.

• William Henry Quilliam (April 10, 1856 – 1932), who changed his name to Abdullah Quilliam, was a 19th century convert from Christianity to Islam, noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre. Quilliam was influential in advancing knowledge of Islam within the British Isles, and gained other converts through his literary works and the charitable institutions he founded.

William Quilliam was born in Liverpool to a wealthy manufacturing family in 1856. He was the son of a watch maker Robert Quilliam, and a claimed relation of Captain John Quilliam RN, First Lieutenant on HMS Victory with Nelson. He established himself as a successful solicitor.

Quilliam was brought up a Christian but learned about Islam and converted, either while visiting southern France in 1882 and crossing over to Algeria and Tunisia, or after visiting Morocco in 1887. Returning to Liverpool, he began to spread Islam among the masses as Abdullah Quilliam. Quilliam established the Liverpool Mosque and Islamic Institute at 8 Brougham Terrace, West Derby Street, Liverpool in 1889, opening on Christmas day. This was England's first mosque, accommodating around a hundred Muslims, This was followed by a Muslim college, headed by Haschem Wilde and Nasrullah Warren, which offered courses for both Muslims and non-Muslims. A weekly Debating and Literary Society within the college attracted many non-Muslim intellectuals.

Quilliam influenced the paths of many converts, including his formerly Methodist mother, his sons, and prominent scientists and intellectuals and his example lead to the conversion of over 150 Englishmen to Islam. An active writer and essayist, he produced a weekly paper, The Crescent, from 1893 until 1908. He published three editions of his masterpiece, The Faith of Islam, which was translated into thirteen languages, gaining him fame across the Islamic world.

He received many honours from the leaders of the Islamic world. He was appointed Sheikh al-Islam by the Ottoman Sultan, Abdul Hamid II in 1894 and Persian Consul to Liverpool by the Shah. He also received money from the Emir of Afghanistan to fund the Islamic Institute in Liverpool. Quilliam's work in Liverpool stopped when he left England in 1908 and the Muslim community there dispersed.

He died in 1932, in London, and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking. He was buried near Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (who each translated the Qur'an), and Lord Headley.

• Ahmed Bin Hanbal (780 - 855 CE, 164 - 241 AH) was an important Muslim scholar and theologian. He is considered the founder of the Hanbali school of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). His full name was Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal Abu `Abd Allah al-Shaybani, being born in the city of Merv which was a north eastern city of Khorasan to Arab parents from Banu Shaiban in 780. He was a distinguished child known for his piety, cleanliness and asceticism. The Imam spent 40 years of his life in the pursuit of knowledge, and only thereafter did he assume the position of a mufti. By this time, Imam Ahmad had become a leading authority in seven Islamic disciplines.

• Dr. Murad Wilfried Hofmann (b. 1931) is a prominent German diplomat and author. He has authored several books on Islam, including Journey to Makkah and Islam: The Alternative. Many of his books and essays focus on Islam's place in the West and, after September 11, in particular, in the United States. Dr. Hofmann was born a Catholic, but converted to Islam in 1980, while serving in the German Foreign Service as a specialist on issues concerning nuclear defense. His conversion was met with some controversy due to his high profile in the German government. He converted to Islam as a result of what he witnessed in the Algerian War of Independence, his fondness for Islamic art, and what he saw as contradictions in Paulist Christian doctrine. Dr. Hofmann went on to serve as Director of Information for NATO at Brussels from 1983 to 1987, Ambassador to Algeria from 1987 to 1990, and Ambassador to Morocco from 1990 to 1994. He currently resides in Turkey.

• Professor Khurshīd Ahmad (March 23, 1932 in Delhi - ) is a renowned research scholar, educationist, economist and versatile writer. He holds Bachelors degrees in Law and Jurisprudence, Masters degrees in Economics and Islamic Studies, and an Honorary Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Education. He has authored and edited about 70 books in English and Urdu combined and contributed to a large number of magazines. He has so far participated in over 100 international conferences and seminars in personal as well as representative capacities.

His in-depth comparative study of the oriental as well as occidental philosophies in religion, academics, economics, constitutional matters and commitment for Islam has led him to be entrusted with key positions in the national as well as international organizations on these socio-economic and other multi-dimensional disciplines. Throughout his life, he has held the following positions:-

• Federal Minister of Planning and Development and has been Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Govt of Pakistan (1978-79).
• Professor at the Karachi University (1955-68).
• Research scholar at the University of Leicester, UK.
• Chairman, International Institute of Islamic Economics, International Islamic University, Islamabad (1983-87).
• President, International Association of Islamic Economics, Leicester, UK (1984-92).
• Member, Supreme Advisory Council, International Center for Research and Islamic Economics, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah (1979-83).
• Vice President, Standing Conference on Jews, Christians and Muslims in Europe, Berlin and London (1974-78).
• Member, Advisory Council, Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, UK (1976-78).
• Member, National Hijra Committee, Govt of Pakistan (1978-83).
• Member, Committee of Jurists to Evaluate Islamic Laws in Sudan (1986-87).
• Member, International Review Committee, Islamic Research and Training Institute, Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah(1988-89).
• Member of Senate of Pakistan for two terms (1985-l997) and Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Economic Affairs and Planning.
• Founder and Chairman of both the Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad and The Islamic Foundation, Leicester (UK).
• Member, Boards of Trustees of Islamic Centre, Zaria (Nigeria); International Islamic University, Islamabad; Foundation Council, Royal Academy for Islamic Civilization, Amman (Jordan).
• Vice President of Islamic Research Academy, Karachi and Lahore.

In view of his pioneering work and contributions towards the development of Islamic Economics as an academic discipline, he was awarded the First Islamic Development Bank Award for Economics in 1988. His contributions to the Islamic cause were also recognized in the form of King Faisal International Prize,1990. In recognition of his services in Islamic Economics & Finance, he was given 5th Annual Prize of American Finance House, LaRiba, USA in July 1998.

 

• Ahmed Hussein Deedat (1918 - 2005), born in Surat, India, was a Muslim scholar of Comparative religion, an author, lecturer, and an orator. He was best known for witty inter-religious public debates. What differentiated Deedat's approach from his contemporaries, apart from eloquence in English language, was that he would not only use references from the Qur'an and the Hadith, but also use his intensive knowledge of the Bible.

• Hassan al Banna (October 14, 1906 – February 12, 1949) was an Egyptian social and political reformer best known as founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the largest and most influential Sunni revivalist organization in the 20th century. Banna was born in 1906 in Mahmudiyya, Egypt (north-west of Cairo). His father, Shaykh Ahmad al-Banna, was a respected local imam (prayer leader) and mosque teacher, educated at Al-Azhar University, who wrote and collaborated on books on Muslim traditions, and also had a shop where he repaired watches and sold gramophones.

Hassan al-Banna is known to have great impact in the modern Islamic thought. He managed to (re)introduce Islam as an all-inclusive system of life, providing a practical example through his society and writings. He endeavored to bring about the changes he hoped for through institution-building, relentless activism at the grassroots level, and a reliance on mass communication. He proceeded to build a complex mass movement that featured sophisticated governance structures; sections in charge of furthering the society's values among peasants, workers, and professionals; units entrusted with key functions, including propagation of the message, liaison with the Islamic world, and press and translation; and specialized committees for finances and legal affairs. Al-Banna's message tackled issues including colonialism, public health, educational policy, natural resources management, Marxism, social inequalities, Arab nationalism, the weakness of the Islamic world on the international scene, and the growing conflict in Palestine. Modern-educated civil servants, office employees, and professionals remained dominant among the organization's activists and decisionmakers.

 

Concerned with the increasing assertiveness and popularity of the brotherhood, as well as with rumours that it was plotting a coup, Prime Minister Nuqrashi Pasha disbanded it in December 1948. The organization's assets were impounded and scores of its members sent to jail. Less than three weeks later, the prime minister was assassinated by a member of the brotherhood. This in turn prompted the assassination of Al-Banna, presumably by a government agent, in February 1949, when Al-Banna was still only 43 and at the height of his career.

 

• Malik Ibn Anas ibn Malik ibn 'Amr al-Asbahi (c. 715 - 796) (93 AH - 179 AH ), born in Medina, was one of the most highly respected scholars of fiqh in Sunni Islam. Also known as "Imam Malik," "the Sheikh of Islam," "Proof of the Community," and "Imam of the Abode of Emigration." The Maliki Maddhab is one of the four schools of jurisprudence that remains popular among Muslims to this day. Imam Malik wrote Al-Muwatta, "The Approved," which was said to have been regarded by Imam Shafi'i to be the soundest book on Earth after the Qur'an.

• Al-Bukhari (810-870), he was a famous Sunni Islamic scholar of Persian ancestry, most known for authoring the hadith collection named Sahih Bukhari, a collection which Sunni regard as the most authentic (Arabic: Sahih) collection after the Qur'an. He was born in the city of Bukhara, in what is today Uzbekistan. Works included Sahih Bukhari, Al Adab Al Mufrad, al-Tarikh al-Kabir (The big history, containing biographies of narrators, with a rating of each) and al-Tarikh al-Saghir (The little history).

• Al-Muslim (lived c. 206-261 AH/c.821-875 CE), Muslim Author of the second most widely recognized collection of Hadith in Sunni Islam, "Sahih Muslim", "Muslim's authentic (collection)". Born in Nishapur (Persia) and traces his origins to the Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah of the Arab tribe of Quraish. Among the author's teachers were included al-Zubair b. Harb, Sa'id b. Mansur, 'Abd b. Humaid, al-Dhuhali, al-Bukhari, Ibn Ma'in, Ibn Abi Shaiba, and others. Among his students were al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi, and Ibn Khuzaima, each of which wrote works on hadith too. Estimates on how many hadiths are in his books vary widely from 12,000 to 3,033, depending on whether they remove the duplicates, consider only the text (matn) or the isnad, the chain of narrators, as well. The book is said to share 2326 hadiths with Bukhari's Sahih. The introduction of his book is a methodology on hadith, and how to differentiate between authentic and non-authentic narrations.  

• Jalaluddin Rumi was one of the great spiritual masters and poetical geniuses of mankind and was the founder of the Mawlawi Sufi order, a leading mystical brotherhood of Islam. Rumi was born in Wakhsh (Tajikistan) under the administration of Balkh in 30 September 1207 to a family of learned theologians. Escaping the Mongol invasion and destruction, Rumi and his family travelled extensively in the Muslim lands, performed pilgrimage to Mecca and finally settled in Konya, Anatolia, then part of Seljuk Empire. When his father Bahaduddin Valad passed away, Rumi succeeded his father in 1231 as professor in religious sciences. Rumi 24 years old, was an already accomplished scholar in religious and positive sciences. Rumi is the author of six volume didactic epic work, the `Mathnawi' and discourses, `Fihi ma Fihi', written to introduce his disciples into metaphysics. If there is any general idea underlying Rumi's poetry, it is the absolute love of God. His influence on thought, literature and all forms of aesthetic expression in the world of Islam cannot be overrated. Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi died on December 17, 1273.

• Fatima Zahra (c. 614-632), was one of  the 4 daughters of the prophet Muhammad (saws) from his first wife Khadijah bint Khuwaylid Al-Kubra. Modern descendants of Muhammad trace their lineage exclusively through Fatimah and her only husband Ali, because she was the only child of prophet Muhammad (pbuh) who had children that survived. Prophet Muhammad had no sons who reached adulthood. After Khadijah Muslims regard Fatima Zahra as the greatest woman that has lived, the leader of all women in Paradise, and a paragon of female virtue.

• Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi (September 25, 1903 – September 22, 1979) is one of the most influential Islamic Lawyers of the 20th century and the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (The Islamic Party). Maududi's philosophy, literature, and activism contributed to the development of Islamic revivalist movements around the world. Maududi was born in Aurangabad city of Hyderabad (now Maharashtra) state, India as the youngest of three sons of the lawyer Ahmad Hasan Maududi. The family had a long-standing tradition of spiritual leadership and a number of Maududi’s ancestors were leaders of Sufi Orders, including Khawajah Qutb al-Din Maudud, renowned leader of the Chishti Sufi Order in the 12th century CE.  

Maududi was home-schooled before attending Madrasah Furqaniyah, a famous high school in Hyderabad. He attended college at Darul Uloom in Hyderabad but withdrew when his father became terminally ill. He knew enough Arabic, Persian, English, and his native tongue Urdu to continue his studies independently. He became a renowned writer, orator and journalist for various associations. Together with Muhammad Iqbal, Maududi established an academic center named Darul-Islam in Pathankot city of Punjab province. He translated the Qur'an into Urdu and wrote prolifically on numerous aspects of Islamic law and culture. During numerous international tours, he was invited to serve on the Advisory Committee which prepared the scheme for the establishment of the Islamic University of Madinah and was on its Academic Council ever since the inception of the University in 1962. He was also a member of the Foundation Committee of the Rabitah al-Alam al-Islami, Mecca, and of the Academy of Research on Islamic Law, Medina.

Maududi wrote extensively on issues related to Islamic finance, consumption, production, and exchange, but he never employed economic methodology. His work on economics was strictly within the epistemic traditions of Kalam (argumentation) and Fiqh (jurisprudence). Maududi wrote more than 120 books and pamphlets and delivered over 1000 speeches, of which 700 were recorded for wider distribution. He is most well-known for his Qur'anic exegesis (Tafsir); his treatment of ethics, sociology, and politics in an Islamic context; and his discussion of the Islamic revivalist movement. His monumental Urdu analysis of the Qur'an, Tafhīm al-Qur’ān ("Towards Understanding the Qur'an"), took 30 years to complete and is considered to be one of the prime contemporary explanations of the Qur'an. Maududi was awarded the first King Faisal Foundation Prize in 1979 for his services to Islam. He is the first person to be awarded such a prize.

In April 1979, Maududi’s long-time kidney ailment worsened and by then he also had heart problems. He went to the United States for treatment and was hospitalized in Buffalo, New York, where his second son worked as a physician. Following a few surgical operations, he died on September 22, 1979 at the age of 76. His funeral was held in Buffalo, but he was buried in an unmarked grave at his residence (Ichra) in Lahore after a very large funeral procession through the city.

 

• Professor Dr. Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri (born February 19, 1951) is a renowned Pakistani writer, poet, religious scholar, political scientist, educationist, social reformer, and human rights activist. He is the patron-in-chief of Minhaj-ul-Quran International and the Minhaj Social Welfare and Human Rights Society and the founding chairman of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT). Qadri was born on 19th February, 1951 at Jhang Sadar (Pakistan). His father, Dr. Farid-ud-Din Qadri was a Medical practitioner, a scholar, a poet and an eloquent speaker.
  

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