Israr Ahmed
| Israr Ahmad ڈاکٹر اسرار احمد |
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26 April 1932 Hisar, Punjab Province, British India (now in Haryana, India) |
| Died | 14 April 2010 (aged 77) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Cause of death | Cardiac arrest |
| Residence | Lahore |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Notable work | The Call of Tanzeem-e-Islami |
| Awards | Sitara-i-Imtiaz (1981) |
| Website | Tanzeem-e-Islami Website |
| Era | 20th century Islamic Scholar |
| Region | World wide |
| School | Islamic philosophy, Quran and Sunnah, Realism, and Rationalism |
| Institutions | Quran Academy |
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Main interests
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Islamic law and Quranic exegesis |
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Notable ideas
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Call to Qur'an, Revival of Khilafah, and Prophetic Model of Revolution |
Israr Ahmed (Urdu: ڈاکٹر اسرار احمد; 26 April 1932 – 14 April 2010; Msc, MBBS) was a prominent Pakistani Islamic theologian,philosopher, and an Islamic scholar followed particularly in South Asia as well as by a number of South Asian Muslims in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.
He was the founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami and an offshoot activist of the rightist Jamaat-e-Islami. Ahmed wrote and published 60 books on different aspects of Islam and religion, nine of which were translated into English. Prior to that, he was a television personality and daily hosted a religious show on Peace TV.
Israr Ahmed was born in Hisar, a province of East Punjab of British Indian Empire, on 26 April 1932. His father was a civil servant in British Government and had his family settled from Hisar to Montgomery, now Sahiwal, Punjab Province of Pakistan.
After graduating from a local high school, Ahmed moved to Lahore to attend the King Edward Medical University in 1950. There, he received MBBS from King Edward Medical University in 1954 and began practising medicine.
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