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Israr Ahmed (Urdu: ڈاکٹر
اسرار احمد; 26 April 1932 – 14 April 2010;
Msc, MBBS) was a prominent Pakistani Islamic
theologian,philosopher, and Islamic scholar who was followed
particularly in South Asia as well as by South Asian Muslims in the Middle
East, Western Europe, and North America.
He was the founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami and an
offshoot activist of the rightist Jamaat-e-Islami. Ahmed wrote and
published 60 books on different aspects of Islam and religion, nine of which
were translated into English. Prior to that, he was a television
personality and daily hosted a religious show on Peace TV.
Israr Ahmed was born in Hisar, a province of East
Punjab of British Indian Empire, on 26 April 1932. His father
was a civil servant in the British Government and had his
family settled from Hisar to Montgomery, now Sahiwal, Punjab
Province of Pakistan.
After graduating from a local high school, Ahmed moved
to Lahore to attend the King Edward Medical University in
1950. He received his MBBS from King Edward Medical
University in 1954 and began practising medicine.
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