Background
Imran Hosein was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1942 from parents whose ancestors had migrated as indentured labourers from India.
philosopher author Islamic scholar
Imran Hosein was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1942 from parents whose ancestors had migrated as indentured labourers from India.
He is a graduate of the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in Karachi and has studied at several institutions of higher learning including the University of Karachi, the University of the West Indies, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Azhar University and the Graduate Institute of International Relations in Switzerland.
He is the author of Jerusalem in the Qur"an. He lectured on Islam in several American and Canadian universities, colleges, churches, synagogues, prisons, community halls, et cetera He was the Imam for some time at Masjid Dar al-Qur"an in Long Island, New New York
He also led the weekly Jumu"ah prayers and delivered the sermon at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan once a month for ten years continuously.
He has traveled continuously and extensively around the world on Islamic lecture tours since graduating from the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in 1971 at age 29, and he has also written more than a dozen books on Islam that have invariably been received with public respect.
