Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin

Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin
Founded 12-step spiritual rehabilitation program

Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin (born 1978) is a teacher of the Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari and Abdul-Qadir Gilani Sufi schools, trained and authorized as a Murshid by the world's foremost leading Grand Master Sufi Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi; the second most influential Muslim in the world according to a 2009 Reuters online poll of over 1.8 million voters, and Sayed Ahmad al-Jilani, Custodian of the Mosque and Tomb of Abdul-Qadir Gilani in Baghdad, Iraq. In line with Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi, Amiruddin advocates monarchism.

Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin is the Founder of ASFC Spiritual Wellness Centre. and Qedar.org He pioneered a unique method of psycho-spiritual rehabilitation therapy based on the Sufi approach, and applied his methodology to create a twelve-step radicalization prevention program in response to the 2006 Toronto terrorism case.

Wilfred Laurier University's "The Laurier M.A. Journal of Religion and Culture" writes, “…the establishment of Amiruddin’s Al Sunnah Foundation and the twelve-step program…can be seen as inspiring and reinforcing the flurry of activism that has continued to emerge from within the community since mid-2009...This growing anti-jihadist activism includes Canadian-based sheikh Tahir ul-Qadri independently issuing a 600-page document in London in March 2010, thoroughly refuting any potential theological justifications for Islamic extremism and going so far as to state that terrorists and suicide bombers are destined for damnation".

Amiruddin's counter-radicalization program focuses primarily on psycho-spiritual development, rehabilitation and personal development, and was specifically tailored to undermine the ideological underpinnings of extremist ideology.