Hisham Kabbani was a Lebanese-American Sufi Muslim scholar known for opposing radical currents within Islam. Through 2005 the opening said he criticized organizations "for supporting radical Islamism." Today the opening says only that he "counseled and advised Muslim leaders to build community resilience against violent extremism"; the word appears nowhere in the article. A reader today learns he opposed generic violent extremism, and not that he specifically named and criticized radical Islamism.
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Hisham Kabbani is a scholar and Sufi shaykh born in Lebanon who has been active in North America lecturing, spreading Sufi teachings and founding Sufi centers. He was sent to America by his shaykh to establish the foundation of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order there. Since then, he has opened thirteen Sufi centers in Canada and the United States. Kabbani graduated from the American University of Beirut in Chemistry . He studied for a medical degree at Leuven in Belgium . Then he received his Islamic law Degree from Damascus . From childhood he has accompanied Shaykh 'Abdullah ad-Daghestani and Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani , then grandshaikhs of the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order. He has lectured at many universities, including the University of Chicago , Columbia University , and the University of California, Berkeley , as well as at many spiritual and religious centers throughout North America, Europe, the Far East, and the Middle East. He is a founding member and chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America , an organisation he has used to criticise the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the American Muslim Council and a number of other organizations for supporting radical Islamism . He himself however, has come under criticism from many Muslim groups and Sufi orders. v t e1
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Kabbani advocates an understanding of Islam described by his supporters as fundamentally based on peace, tolerance, respect and love.Shaykh Kabbani has been an outspoken critic of extremism as well as the Wahabi doctrine.Shaykh Kabbani is a spiritual teacher in the line of the Naqshbandi -Haqqani Sufi Order.Kabbani is the founder and chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America , the chairman of the American Muslim Assistance relief organization, the founder of Kamilat, an international Muslim women’s organization, the chairman of the As-Sunnah Foundation of America, and the founder and president of ‘Muslim Magazine’.He is a spiritual teacher of the Naqshbandi -Haqqani Sufi Order. and founder of the Sufi Muslim Council . 200 Years of New Kharijism: the Ongoing Revision of Islam The 500 Most Influential Muslims, 2009, Edited by prof.John Esposito and prof.
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Kabbani has counseled and advised Muslim leaders around the world from Afghanistan to the UK to build community resilience against violent extremism.His vocal criticism of extremism has stirred controversy among some American Muslims .In 2012 the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre named him one of the top 500 most influential Muslims.
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Kabbani has counseled and advised Muslim leaders to build community resilience against violent extremism . His criticism of extremism has stirred controversy among some American Muslims . In 2012 the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre named him one of the top 500 most influential Muslims. His notable students include the world-famous boxer Muhammad Ali and former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono .
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Kabbani has counseled and advised Muslim leaders to build community resilience against violent extremism . In 2012, the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre named him on The 500 Most Influential Muslims . His notable students include the world-famous boxer Muhammad Ali and former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono .
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Kabbani has counseled and advised Muslim leaders to build community resilience against violent extremism .
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scholar and sufi shaykh born in lebanon who has been active in north america lecturing
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lebanese-american sunni sufi muslim scholar belonging to the naqshbandi haqqani sufi order
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