Ahmad Kutty
| Ahmad Kutty | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Shaikh Ahmad Kutty |
| Born | 1946 Kerala, India |
| Awards | One of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
Islamiya College Santapuram Islamic University of Madinah University of Toronto |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Islam |
| Notable ideas | Moderation |
Islamiya College Santapuram Islamic University of Madinah
Shaikh Ahmad Kutty (born 1946 in Kerala, India), is a prominent North American Islamic scholar. He is currently senior resident Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto and has taught at Emanuel College of the University of Toronto as an adjunct instructor. He is the father of Faisal Kutty.
Shaikh Kutty graduated in the traditional Islamic sciences and received the Ijazah (title) of al-Faqih fi al-ddeen (first rank) from Islamiya College Santapuram, a leading Islamic institution in south India. He served as an editor for the Jamaat Kerala mouthpiece Probadhanam. During his tenure he also translated Sayyid Qutb's Social Justice (al-adalatul ijtimaiyyah fi al-Islam) into Malayalam in the early 1970s.
Shaikh Kutty then attended the Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia, from where he obtained his Licentiate in Usul al-Ddeen (first rank).
In 1973, he arrived in Canada with a full scholarship to pursue his M.A. in Islamic studies from the University of Toronto. He secured a further scholarship to carry out his doctoral studies in Sharia thought specializing in the work of Shah Waliullah From 1975 to 1980 he pursued his Doctoral studies in Shari’ah thought at the McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies under the supervision of Professor Charles Adams and Prof. A. Üner Turgay. The Institute, established in 1952 by Wilfred Cantwell Smith,is the first institute of Islamic studies in North America.
During a visit to India in 1976, an arrest warrant was issued for Shaikh Kutty under the The Emergency (India) declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s administration for his activities with Jamaat-e-Islami and Probodhanam. In India, "the Emergency" refers to a 21-month period in 1975–77 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi unilaterally had a state of emergency declared across the country. Officially issued by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed under Article 352(1) of the Constitution for "internal disturbance", the Emergency was in effect from 25 June 1975 until its withdrawal on 21 March 1977.
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