Dr.Zakir Naik:
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (born 18 October,1965) is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative religion.He is the founder of Islamic Research Foundation(IRF),a non profit organization that owns the Peace TV channel based in Dubai UAE.He is sometimes referred to as a televangelist.Before becoming a public speaker,he trained as a doctor.He has written two booklets on Islam and comparative religion.He is regarded as an exponent of the Salafi ideology,but in his own statements he has rejected the relevance of sectarian or Madh'hab designations.
Biography:
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik was born on 18 October,1965 in Mumbai,India.He attended St. Peters High School in Mumbai.Later he enrolled at Kishinchand Chellaram College,before studying medicine at Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital and later the University Of Mumbai,where he obtained the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery(MBBS).His wife Farhat Naik ,works for the women's section of the IRF.
In 1991 he started working in the field of Dawah,and founded the IRF.Dr.Naik says he was inspired by Ahmed Deedat,an Islamic preacher,having met him in 1987.Naik says that his goal is to "concentrate on the educated Muslim youth who have become apologetic about their own religion and have started to feel the religion is outdated".He considers it a duty of every Muslim to remove perceived misconceptions about Islam and to counter what he views as the Western media's anti-Islamic bias in the aftermath of the September 11,2001 attacks in the United States.Some of his articles published in magazines such as Islamic Voice.
Anthropologist Thomas Blom Hansen has written that Naik's style of memorizing the Quran and Hadith literature in various languages,and his related missionary activity,has made him extremely popular in Muslim and non-Muslims circles.
Naik is the founder of the Islamic International School in Mumbai.
Lectures And Debates:
Naik has held many debates and lectures around the world.One of Naik's most-cited debates was with William Campbell in Chicago in April 2000 on the topic of "The Quran And The Bible".In the Light of Science.
Naik has said that "despite the strident anti-Islam campaign, 3400 Americans have embraced Islam from September 2001 to July 2002".He says Islam is a religion of reason and logic ,and that the Quran contain 1000 verses relating to science ,which he says explains the number of Western converts..A popular theme of Naik's is to demonstrate how scientific theories were prophesying by the Quran .For example ,he says certain verses of the Quran accurately describe embryological development.
On 21January 2006 Naik held an inter-religious debate with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Banglore about the concept of God in Islam and Hinduism.
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (born 18 October,1965) is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative religion.He is the founder of Islamic Research Foundation(IRF),a non profit organization that owns the Peace TV channel based in Dubai UAE.He is sometimes referred to as a televangelist.Before becoming a public speaker,he trained as a doctor.He has written two booklets on Islam and comparative religion.He is regarded as an exponent of the Salafi ideology,but in his own statements he has rejected the relevance of sectarian or Madh'hab designations.Biography:
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik was born on 18 October,1965 in Mumbai,India.He attended St. Peters High School in Mumbai.Later he enrolled at Kishinchand Chellaram College,before studying medicine at Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital and later the University Of Mumbai,where he obtained the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery(MBBS).His wife Farhat Naik ,works for the women's section of the IRF.
In 1991 he started working in the field of Dawah,and founded the IRF.Dr.Naik says he was inspired by Ahmed Deedat,an Islamic preacher,having met him in 1987.Naik says that his goal is to "concentrate on the educated Muslim youth who have become apologetic about their own religion and have started to feel the religion is outdated".He considers it a duty of every Muslim to remove perceived misconceptions about Islam and to counter what he views as the Western media's anti-Islamic bias in the aftermath of the September 11,2001 attacks in the United States.Some of his articles published in magazines such as Islamic Voice.
Anthropologist Thomas Blom Hansen has written that Naik's style of memorizing the Quran and Hadith literature in various languages,and his related missionary activity,has made him extremely popular in Muslim and non-Muslims circles.
Naik is the founder of the Islamic International School in Mumbai.
Lectures And Debates:
Naik has held many debates and lectures around the world.One of Naik's most-cited debates was with William Campbell in Chicago in April 2000 on the topic of "The Quran And The Bible".In the Light of Science.
Naik has said that "despite the strident anti-Islam campaign, 3400 Americans have embraced Islam from September 2001 to July 2002".He says Islam is a religion of reason and logic ,and that the Quran contain 1000 verses relating to science ,which he says explains the number of Western converts..A popular theme of Naik's is to demonstrate how scientific theories were prophesying by the Quran .For example ,he says certain verses of the Quran accurately describe embryological development.
On 21January 2006 Naik held an inter-religious debate with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Banglore about the concept of God in Islam and Hinduism.
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