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 Brief Biography of

Shaykh Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

• American Born Imam Luqman Ahmad is a graduate of Omdurman Islamic University in the Sudan and has attended Umm al-Qura University in Saudi Arabia. He is the former Imam of Masjid Ibrahim Islamic Center in Sacramento Ca for 20 years, and is currently an Associate Imam and at the Toledo Masjid al-Islam. He is a writer, and has published over 200 articles on Islam in America, He is .a Muslim American Thinker, a strict adherent to tawheed {Islamic Monotheism,), but does not claim a specific Islamic creed except that he “believes as the Prophet believes.”. His stance perturbed some Imams with some of his positions on foreign fatwas (Islamic legal edicts), his views are highly regarded by many scholars of Islam.   He is the first to discover and document PCTSD (Post Conversion Traumatic Stress Disorder), a condition thataffects American Muslim coverts to Islam. He is a writer, a Muslim American Thinker, and the author of the book: “The Devil’s Deception of the Modern Day Salafi Sect”, about Muslim radicalization and theological extremism amongst indigenous American Muslims. He is also authored of the “Double Edged Slavery”, a from the ground up analysis of the condition of Black American Muslims, both available on Amazon.com Contact him at imamabulaith@yahoo.com. He blogs at http://www.imamluqman.wordpress.com.

Other Affiliations:

• Current National Shura Member (MANA) Muslim Alliance of North America
• Former executive committee member of the North American Imams Federation (NAIF)
• Founding Member and former President of the Council of Sacramento Valley Islamic Organizations (COSVIO)
• Former Member of the Mayor’s Council of faith Based Organizations (Philadelphia, PA)
• Member of the Sacramento Interfaith Coalition
• Former Advisory Board Member, Interfaith Chaplaincy services, Sutter Hospital, Sacramento Shura Member, Muslim Alliance of North America
• (Former) Executive Commttee Member, North American Imams Federation

Books written by Imam Luqman Ahmad

• The Devil’s Deception of the Modern Day Salafi sect, 2014 Lotus Tree Press
• Double Edged Slavery, How African American Muslims have been Colonized
• Seventy-Seven Branches of Faith (scheduled for Spring 2017)

Books and articles where Imam Luqman Ahmad is published, cited or quoted:

• Freedom of Speech and Islam, By Erich Kolig (Book).
• God & Apple Pie: Religious Myths and Visions of America, By Dr. Christopher Buck (Book)
• The American Thinker, (published article)
• com [several articles]
• The American Muslim (TAM) [several articles]
• Fatwas and the Responsibility of Muslim Scholars[2]
• Oppressed People’s Online Word[3]
• Religious Myths and Visions of America: by Dr. Christopher Buck, (book)
• The Saudi Gazette, Article about the Prophet (SAWS).
• The Arab American Dialogue, (article)[4]
• Jum’ah Magazine (article)
• Huda Magazine
• The Q News

Past and Current Radio Programs that Imam Luqman Ahmad Has Appeared on

• Islam Today, 900 WURD AM Philadelphia
• Greed For Ilm (internet Radio)
• Going Global with David Delgado
• WHAT Radio 1340 AM Philadelphia
• The Muslim Review with host Imam Luqman Ahmad

Academic Studies where Imam Luqman Ahmad is quoted

• The Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, September, 2010[5]
• The Clute Institute, Journal of Diversity Management

Teaching seminars and conferences given or sponsored by Imam Luqman Ahmad

• 2007 Spiritual Etiquette a 10-week course in Muslim Spirituality
• First California conference of Race Relations in Muslim America held at Masjid Ibrahim Islamic Center (2009)
• Various islamic Weekend Spiritual Retreats

[1] http://www.investigativeproject.org/3993/boston-bomber-exposes-islamist-secret#

[2] https://muslimvillage.com/2013/11/17/46301/the-responsibility-of-muslim-scholarship-in-america/

[3] http://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?month=09&year=2012

[4] http://www.alhewar.net/Magazine-Net/COVERWinterEnglish2008.htm

[5] http://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1283965345ICSR_ChallengingtheInfluenceofAnwarAlAwlaki.pdf

Additional History

• His father, Shaykh Abdul-Karim Muhammad Ahmad, versed him in areas of tawheed, aqeedah, adab, fiqh, and seera,

• His mother Umm Rabee’ah (May Allah protect and hold close her soul) a wife, activist, mother of seven, was one of the Ummuhaat ul-.Muslimeen of Phiadelphia  She reserved herself mostly to her home, where she taught adab, aqeedah, and fiqh, as she grappled with ways to maintain Islamic tradition in her children in a society that at the time, was unfamiliar with Islam and Muslims.
  
• Shaykh Abu Laith Luqman learned the discipline of patience and perseverance from his mother who often had to endure jeers and stares from strangers on the street because of her adherence to Islamic clothing style. As an adolescent, young Luqman attended lectures at the feet of Colonel Amirudeen of Canada, where he would sometimes sit for hours at a time without a break. The Shaykh had such an impact on young Luqman that he would return to his Philadelphia neighborhood and preach the sheikh’s words to neighborhood kids (many who are now Muslims) on the street corners and basketball courts of inner-city Philadelphia.
•  Accompanied by his father, Sheikh Luqman attended many lessons of the legendary African scholar, Sheikh Dawood Ahmad Faisal, of the famous State Street Mosque in Brooklyn, a major center of traditional learning in the United States. Sheikh Luqman also took instruction from the well known Egyptian Sheikh Suleiman Dunyaa.
  
• During this time, the Imam continued to receive knowledge from his father, who introduced him to Ihyaa uloom al-deen by al-Ghazaali, at the age of 15. This contributed to Sheikh Luqman’s distinctive spiritual personality, which endears him to his student
• Shaykh Luqman graduated from the langaage and usool ud-deen program at Omdurman Islamic University in Sudan and recieved his ijaazah in Hafs Quran recitation from the Quranic village of Wad al-Faadni in the Jazeerah Province of Sudan

• Skaykh Luqman also studied at Umm Al-Quraa University in Saudi Arabia and at the Haram al-Mekki. While in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in addition to the teachers at Um al-Qura, the Imam studied with Sheikh Suleiman al-Hazmi, Sheikh Sayyid Sabiq who was his sheikh of tafseer al-Quran, and Sheikh Muhammad al-Ghazaali.
  
• Shaykh Luqman learned usool al-hadith from Sheikh Muhammad bin Humayad a classic era Az’harian trained in the Ottoman period.
• Imam Luqman also took lessons from the late African American Shaykh; Muhammad Ghulaam Al-Haarith,  one of the first indigenous American Muslims to attend Azhar University, Shaykh Muhammad was a guest in the home of Imam Luqman during the mid-eighties where Imam Luqman transformed his living room into a Madrasatul Ilm (School of Traditional Knowledge)

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