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Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan to head Mushwarat

By TwoCircles.net news desk

New Delhi: Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, editor of The Milli Gazette and a scholar on Arab affairs, has been elected unopposed as the new President of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations.

Information to this effect was released by outgoing Mushawarat president Syed Shahabuddin. The statement also listed other members of the Markazi Majlis-e-Amla ( executive body) of the organization.

Dr. Khan was one of the general secretaries of the AIMMM under the outgoing president Syed Shahabuddin. Earlier he was the general secretary of the Movement for the Empowerment of Muslim Indians (MOMIN). India is home to 150 million Muslims, the largest Muslim concentration in the world after Indonesia.

Dr Khan is a member and trustee of many national and international organizations. Three years ago he established Charity Alliance which is taking care of some of the most disadvantaged Muslims in the country, especially in the educational field.

Dr Khan is a seasoned journalist and serious scholar. He authored, edited and translated over 40 books in Arabic, Urdu and English and has authored several articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam (Lieden). He was educated in India, Egypt and UK where he obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester.

Dr Khan is considered a specialist in Middle Eastern and Indian Muslim issues. He has written extensively on Palestine. His works include “Palestine Documents” (Delhi 1998).

In 1988, he established the Institute of Islamic & Arab Studies whose publications include Muslim & Arab Perspectives journal. In January 2000, he started The Milli Gazette which has now become the most popular English-language paper published by Indian Muslims with a world-wide readership.

Members of Majlis-e-Amla for 2008-11 are:

1. Elected Members for the term 2008-2011
1. Maulana S.Jalaluddin Umri (JIH)
2. Mr.Syed Shahabuddin
3.Mr.Amanullah Khan
4. Dr.Abu Saleh Shariff
5. Maulana Aqeelul Gharvi
6. Maulana Ejaz Ahmad Aslam
7. Dr.Syed Farooq
8. Dr.S.Q.R.Ilyas
9. Dr.Abdul Haq Ansari
10. Mr.M.Naim Khan
11.Prof.Shakeel Ahmad
12. Mr.Umar Hayat Khan Ghori
13. Mr.S.Y.Nadeem, former JS,GOI
14. Dr.Zafarul Islam Khan
15. Hakim Md.Irfan Al Husaini, Kolkata
16. Dr.S.M.Yehya
17. Mr.Ishrat Aziz
18. Prof.Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
2. Nominated Members for the term 2008-09
1.Maulana Asghar Imam Mahdi Salafi (JAH)
2. Mr.Mohammed Sulaiman (INL)
3. Mr.Hafiz Rashid A Choudhary
4. Mr.Ahmad Rashid Sherwani
5. Mr.Abu Asim Azmi, MP
6. Mr.Navaid Hamid
7.Mr.Justice P.K.Shamsuddin
8. Maulana Zeeshan Hedayati
9.Mr. Bashirduddin Babukhan
10. Dr.Abdus Sattar, Chennai

Links:

http://www.milligazette.com/
http://www.mushawarat.com/