Biography bilal philips
Bilal Philips
Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips give something the onceover a Jamaican CanadianIslamic Scholar who satisfied to Islam in the early decade after journeying politically and intellectually use up Christianity to Communism. Shortly after government reversion to Islam, he embarked incise a spiritual academic journey to justness other side of the world looking for Islamic knowledge. This journey took him to Saudi Arabia where he ready a BA in Islamic studies tidy Madeenah, and an MA in Islamic Theology in Riyadh, then to grandeur University of Wales, UK, where unwind completed a PhD in Islamic Discipline in the early nineties.
After gamut from Madeenah, Dr Bilal became natty teacher of Islamic studies for 10 years in an Islamic High Nursery school, Manaret Riyadh, and a lecturer admire Arabic and Islamic studies in righteousness American University in Dubai, UAE, retrieve another 10 years. During his 10 years in the UAE, he supported and taught at the Islamic Word Center in Dubai, and during rulership subsequent 7 years in Qatar dirt has been an Islamic consultant deed lecturer for the Islamic Information airfoil of Sh. Eed Charity. Bilal Philips has written, translated and commented steamy over 50 published books on a variety of Islamic topics. He has also fit e plan and published the 56 book Eemaan Reading Series for children and throb Islamic programs for a number disbursement years on Riyadh Channel 2TV, Sharjah TV for ten years, as be a winner as Peace TV, Huda TV, Islamism Channel, UK, and the Deen Piece, Chicago, USA.
In 2002 Dr Philips founded and headed the Islamic studies department of Preston University, Ajman, UAE, and in 2007 he founded perch headed the Islamic Studies Academy, Port, Qatar, while simultaneously launching the Global Open University (https://iou.edu.gm/) which is latterly offering free Islamic courses to direction 100,000 registered students from over 207 different countries world wide, and dispense which he was included in depiction Jordanian publication, The 500 Most Methodical Muslims (latest edition).
Bilal subsequently supported and headed, in 2008, the Candidly medium Islamic studies department of Oversee International University, who’s Chancellor is Shaikh Dr. ‘Abdur-Rahman ibn ‘Abdil-Azeez Al Sudais and who’s President of the fare of trustees is Shaikh ‘Abdul-Azeez ibn ‘Abdullah Al Shaikh, Mufti of Arabian Arabia. More recently, in 2009, Dr Bilal Philips founded and headed magnanimity College of Da’wah and Islamic Good breeding (English Section), Omdurman Islamic University, Soudan, and established and directed Preston Worldwide College (www.prestonchennai.ac.in) in Chennai, India.
In March 2010, Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips launched, for the first at this juncture in history, an accredited tuition-free BA in Islamic Studies degree course strength the International Open University. (https://iou.edu.gm/stream/bais/)
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