THE 500 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSLIMS - CESD

is the largest Muslim organization in North America, and is an umbrellaorganization for numerous local and regional Muslim societies and groups inthe United States and Canada.AL QADRI, DR MUHAMMAD TAHIR,PAKISTANScholarly p. 103Al Qadri is a politician, professor, and the founder of Minhaj ul Qur’anInternational Worldwide, an organization whose aim is to establish unityand understanding between communities. He is also the founder of theMinhaj Welfare Foundation that provides welfare for the needy. Al Qadrihas authored some 450 published works and given more than 6,000 lectureson economics and political studies, religious and social philosophy, law andmedical sciences.RAMADAN, DR TARIQ,SWITZERLANDScholarly p. 104Ramadan is Europe’s preeminent Muslim intellectual writing about Islamin public life. He is a professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University andformerly a visiting professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is thepresident of the European Muslim Network think tank based in Brussels andis an advisor to the European Union on religion.SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD,PAKISTANPreachers p. 128Founder of the International Islamic Propagation Center (IIPC), a da’waorganization based in Karachi, Pakistan, Mohammad Shaikh is well-knownas an influential public speaker. He has given numerous lectures on the Qur’anand also founded the English-language IIPC TV channel which broadcasts toviewers across the globe. He was ranked 4th most influential Muslim in theworld in a public poll by Reuters in 2009.AL SUDAIS, SHEIKH ABDUL RAHMAN,SAUDI ARABIAQur’an Reciters p. 161Al Sudais has international influence through his recitation of the Qur’an,which he memorized at age 12. Currently an imam at the Grand Mosquein Mecca, he has studied sharia at Riyadh University, Imam Muhammadbin Saud Islamic University, and Umm al Qura University. Al Sudais is alsopopular for his sermons and stance on peaceful conflict-resolution.WINTER, TIMOTHY (SHEIKH ABDAL-HAKIM MURAD),UKScholarly p. 104Winter is Britain’s leading Muslim scholar, and also one of the most wellrespectedWestern theologians in the Muslim world. He has written on varioustopics ranging from British Muslim history, theological discourse and socialissues. Winter teaches theology at Cambridge University and is the director ofStudies in Theology at Wolfson College in Cambridge. His advice is frequentlysought on the issue of Muslims in Britain.93