Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad is a Sufi Islamic scholar with international acclaim, blessed speaker and an influential Muslim leader from Southern India. He was elected as the Grand Mufti of India on 24th February 2019. He’s the founder and current chancellor of Jamia Markaz, headquartered in Karanthur and spread all over the Indian states, which is perhaps the largest educational institution in the Asian continent. He has consecutively been ranked for many years as an influential Muslim from India by the prestigious Directory, “The Muslim 500”, published by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan. He presently holds the position of the General Secretary to a number of supreme educational and scholastic councils in India, namely Sunni Scholars Organisation of India, Islamic Education Board of India, Samastha Kerala Sunni Jam-iyyathul Ulema.
- National Academy of Engineering
- Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- American Society for Engineering Education
- Research, teaching, and public service, honorary doctorates
- Benjamin Garver Lamme Medal of Engineering Education
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
He was born on 22nd March 1939 in the rural suburb of Kanthapuram in the Kozhikode district of Kerala. He built his organizational and leadership career by exhibiting his exceptional oratory skills and innovations in the field of education. Similarly, he was at the forefront of many struggles and campaigns for uplifting the marginalized and the destitute to the mainstream. Through his educational and charity programs, he could present a unique mode of rehabilitation for the disaffected youths of war-torn Kashmir, those people at illiterate ghettos of Bengal and other North Indian regions and several others in and outside India. From his early career as a leader, he’s known for building many charity initiatives in Kerala that didn’t ever show up any discrimination on the grounds of language, caste, culture and religion. He further navigated the social causes of peace and communal harmony. His special journeys, (to name, Kerala Yatra(2015, 2010) and Karnataka Yatra) for awakening the message of peaceful humanity could conquer the secular minds of the majority of the population living in Kerala and Karnataka. Also, he has embarked on several spiritual tours to many eastern and western nations, even the United States of America.
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