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Javed Ahmad Ghamidi

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Javed Ahmad Ghamidi (born 7 April 1952) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and philosopher who is the founder of Al-Mawrid Institute of Islamic Sciences and its sister organisation Danish Sara . He is regarded as one of the most influential and popular philosophers of the modern era. He became a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology (responsible for giving legal advice on Islamic issues to the Pakistani government and the country's Parliament ) on 28 January 2006, where he remained for a couple of years. He also taught Islamic studies at the Civil Services Academy for more than a decade from 1979 to 1991. He was also a student of Islamic scholar and exegete, Amin Ahsan Islahi . He is running an intellectual movement similar to Wasatiyya , on the popular electronic media of Pakistan . The Muslim 500 (The World's Most Influential Muslims) in the 2019, 2020 and 2021 editions. The Oxford dictionary of Islam . Masud(2007) There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

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