Shaykh Hisham Muhammad Kabbani

Shaykh Hisham Muhammad Kabbani is a scholar and Sufi shaykh from the Middle East. He graduated from the American University of Beirut in Chemistry. From there he went to Belgium, to continue his Medical Degree in Louvain. Then he received his Islamic Law Degree from Damascus. From his childhood, he accompanied Shaykh 'Abdullah ad-Daghestani and Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, the grandshaikhs of the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order in this time. He travelled extensively throughout the Middle East, Europe, and the Far East in the company of his shaikh.

In 1991 he was ordered by his shaykh to move to America and to establish the foundation of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order there.

Since that time, he has opened thirteen Sufi centers in Canada and the United States. He has lectured in many universities, including the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Howard, Berkeley, McGill, Concordia, Dawson College, as well as in many spiritual and religious centers throughout North America, Europe, the Far East and the Middle East.

Shaykh Hisham Kabbani's mission in the Americas is to spread the Sufi teachings of the brotherhood of mankind and the Unity of belief in God that is present in all religions and spiritual paths. His efforts are directed at bringing the diverse spectrum of religions and spiritual paths into harmony and concord, in recognition of mankind's responsibility as caretaker of this fragile planet and of one another.

Shaykh Hisham, as a Sufi shaykh, has been given the authority and permission to guide his followers to the Love of God and to the stations to which they have been destined by their Creator. His arduous spiritual training of 40 years at the hands of his grandshaykh and his shaikh, has endowed him with the sublime qualities of wisdom, light, intellect, and compassion necessary for a true Master on the Path.

Shaykh Hisham's outreach mission in the Americas is his unique contribution to the Endeavor of Humankind in reaching for its highest destiny--nearness to God. His endeavors to bring unity of hearts in their movement towards the Divine Essence is what may be his greatest legacy to the West.

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Al-Sayyid al-Shaykh MUHAMMAD HISHAM KABBANI comes from a well-respected Lebanese family of Muslim scholars, jurists, muftis, and teachers, whose prominence in the Middle East goes back to the early centuries of Islam. Shaykh Hisham is vice-chairman of Al-Sunna Foundation of America (ASFA) and presently the most famous Muslim da`i and scholar in the Americas. He has lectured in the Middle East, Far East, Africa, and Europe on Islam in the modern world, Islamic education, and spirituality. He came to America eight years ago on the orders of his shaykh, Mawlana Muhammad Nazim Adil al­Haqqani, mufti of Cyprus and world head of the Naqshbandi Tariqa, with the directive to spread Islam among non­Muslims. He has since helped establish more than thirty mosques and Islamic centers and has conveyed the Message of Islam to countless people, by Allah's grace. He authored several books on Islam and Sufism, and frequently lectures at centers of religious learning and universities. His most recent work are a three-volume, 1,500-page refutation of "Salafi" dogmas, entitled Islamic Beliefs and Doctrine According to Ahl al-Sunna: A Repudiation of "Salafi" Innovations, as well as its summarized version entitled al-Radd al-qati` `ala al-salafi al-da'i` (The Decisive Answer to the Lost "Salafi"). The present work is a response to the growing campaign of "Salafi" disinformation on tasawwuf. It is hoped the reader will find in these works an effective antidote against the diseases of alteration, modernization, and anti-spirituality that are presently poisening the core and kernel of our Deen.