INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC PROPAGATION CENTER
Born in the Surat district of India in 1918, Ahmed Deedat had no recollection of his father untill 1926. His father a tailor by profession had emigrated to South Africa shortly after the birth of Ahmed Deedat.
Brother Mohammad Shaikh was born on October 06, 1952, Karachi, Pakistan. He started International Islamic Propagation center in 1985.
Dr. Jamal Badawi is the director of the Islamic Information Foundation, Halifax, Canada. Dr. Badawi is a professor of Management at Saint Mary University in Halifax. • He has authored several books and articles on Islam and designed and participated in the production of nearly 350 half-hour segments of a TV series on Islam.
Dr. Zakir Naik is a medical doctor by professional training. He is a renowned as dynamic international orator on Islam and comparative religion. He clarifies Islamic viewpoints and clears misconceptions about Islam, using the Qur'an, authentic Hadith and other religious scriptures as a basis, in conjunction with reason, logic and scientific facts.
Brother Gary R. Miller (ABDUL AHAD OMAR) is a mathematician and a theologian. Born in a Christian family, he was active in Christian missionary work in his youth. Later he discovered many inconsistencies in the Bible.
Yousuf Estes was raised as a strong Protestant Christian, born in Ohio, raised and educated in Texas and was a successful marketing entrepreneur and preacher of Christianity.
Dr. Lang is an associated professor in the Department of Mathematics at the university of Kansas, one of the biggest universities in the United States.
Harun Yahya is a pen name used by Mr. Adnan Oktar.
Born in Ankara in 1956, Adnan Oktar is a prominent Turkish intellectual. Completely devoted to moral values and dedicated to communicating the sacred values he cherishes to other people, Oktar started his intellectual struggle in 1979 during his education at Mimar Sinan University's Academy of Fine Arts.
Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips was born in Jamaica, but grew up in Canada where he accepted Islam in 1972. Since 1994 he has founded and directed The Islamic
Information Center in Dubai, U.A.E. and the Department of Foreign Languages at Dar al Fatah Islamic Press in Sharjah, U.A.E.
Abdullah Hakim Quick graduated with honors in Da’wah and Islamic sciences at the Islamic University of Madeenah. He has also studied at the University of Toronto where he achieved a Ph.D. (Philosophy) in West African History and an MA (Philosophy) in African History.
Born in Uttar Pradesh in the town of Azamgarh in 1925, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan came from a family which had been involved in India's freedom struggle
since 1857. It was thanks to the pro-independence atmosphere at home that, while still a very young man, he became a staunch nationalist in the period
prior to India gaining its freedom in 1947. The Maulana, a regular contributor to several newspapers and journals has to his credit, a number of books,
which have been incorporated in the curricula of several Arab universities. The Maulana has also written a two-volume commentary on the Holy Qur'an.
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson is an Islamic scholar who teaches at the Zaytuna Institute in California, U.S.Hamza Yusuf was born as Mark Hanson in Walla Walla, Washington and was raised in Northern California in a Greek Orthodox family, the son of a US academic father and activist mother. At the age of 17, in 1977, Hanson became a Muslim in Santa Barbara, California, after having a near-death experience in a car accident which led him to read the Qur'an and eventually become a Muslim.
Born Timothy J. Winter in 1960, Abdal Hakim studied at the prestigious Westminster School in London, UK and later at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with first class honours in Arabic in 1983. He then lived in Cairo for three years, studying Islam under traditional teachers at Al-Azhar, one of the oldest universities in the world. He went on to reside for three years in Jeddah, where he administered a commercial translation office and maintained close contact with Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad and other ulama from Hadramaut, Yemen.
Dr. Lisa Killinger, an Amercian convert to Islam, shares her experiences with non-Muslims both before and after September 11th. She opens by telling her story of how she discovered Islam in 1979 on the Iowa State University campus. She then continues by echoing the question asked by her own mother upon her conversion, "What kind of woman would want to be a Muslim, afterall they are oppressed!"
Aminah is a renowned female scholar of Islam she travels around the United States to give lectures , her personal story has admired hundreds of individuals ,she is also President of International Union of Muslim Women , the organization that has many achievements under its belt.