Syed Soharwardy

Syed Soharwardy
Born	1955 (age 61–62) Karachi, Pakistan
Residence	Calgary
Nationality	Canada
Education	B.A. University of Karachi B.S. NED University of Engineering and Technology M.S.New Jersey Institute of Technology M.Eng University of Calgary
Occupation	Imam
Known for	President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada
Parent(s)	Syed Riazuddin Soharwardy (father)

Syed Badiuddin Soharwardy (born 1955 in Karachi) is a Sufi scholar, chairman of the Al-Madinah Calgary Islamic Assembly, and is the founder and current president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada. In January 1998, he founded the group Muslims Against Terrorism.

A direct descendent (Sayyid) of Prophet Muhammad, Soharwardy studied Islam at Dar-ul-Aloom Soharwardia, a traditional Islamic madrasah (school) founded by his father Allama Syed Riazuddin Soharwardy, the imam of the Jamia Baghdadi Masjid in Karachi, Pakistan. His grandfather Syed Jalaluddin Chishty had been the Grand Mufti of Kashmir before moving to Amritsar in India to become the head of Dar-ul-Aloom Nizamiah Sirajiah in the wake of the Partition of India. After earning a B.A. in Islamic Studies from the University of Karachi and a degree in electrical engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, he later earned a M.Sc. in management engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a M.Eng. in project management from the University of Calgary, he is certified as a project manager from Project Management Institute. First appointed as a teacher at Dar-ul-Aloom Soharwardia in Karachi, where he taught Islamic studies, he later served as an assistant Imam and Kahteeb at Jamia Bughdadi Masjid (1971-1979), He has lectured on Islam in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Canada at various universities and institutes.

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