Imran Hosein

Nationality:

American

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no

Description:

Sheikh Imran Hosein was born in Trinidad, West Indies and studied Islam under the guidance of the distinguished Islamic Scholar, Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fadlur Rahman Ansari at the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies, Pakistan. He did his post-graduate studies in Philosophy at Karachi University and in International Relations at the University of West Indies, Trinidad and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.

He later became the Principal of the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies, Pakistan, a position held until 1988. He migrated to USA and was appointed Director of the Institute of Islamic Education and Research in Miami, Florida in 1989. In 1991 he was appointed as Director of Islamic Studies for the Joint Committee of Muslim Organisations of Greater New York. Recently Sheikh Imran was appointed as Director of Da'wah for Tanzee-e-Islami of North America.

Sheikh Imran has authored several books on Islam and its relations to money and finance

Available talks:

• The Prohibition of Riba In Sunnah

Other talks given:

• Ya'jooj and Ma'jooj
• Political implications of the abolition of the Caliphate