Rashid Shaz | |
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راشد شاز | |
![]() Dr. Rashid Shaz addressing CRANS MONTANA FORUM ON AFRICA & SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION "Toward a better Governance for a sustainable Economic & Social Development" Dated 17 to 22 March 2016 held in Dakhla (Morocco) | |
Personal | |
Born | 5 February 1963 Darbhanga
India[
citation needed] |
Religion | Islam |
Denomination | Islam |
Main interest(s) | Interfaith studies [2] |
Notable idea(s) | Building a bridge between Religion and Science. |
Notable work(s) | idrak-e-zawaal-e-ummat, Lastam pokh, Islam: negotiating the future, [3] Islam: creating a future Islamic civilization. [4] |
Alma mater | Aligarh Muslim University [5] |
Occupation | Islamic scholar [1] |
Rashid Shaz ( Urdu: راشد شاز; c. ) is an Indian Islamic scholar at the Aligarh Muslim University, India. His books include: Idrak Zawal-e-Ummat, [6] lastam pokh, [7] kitabul Urooj, and Manifesto of United Islam.
Rashid Shaz is an ISESCO Ambassador for Dialogue of Culture among Civilizations [8] and a professor of English at the Aligarh Muslim University, [9] India. In 2008, he released in Monaco an important founding document “Calling for a New Dialogue between Islam and Christianity”. [10] Shaz has also engaged with the debate on shibh-ahle-kitab. In his book ادراک اسباب تراجع الامۃ(۲ مجلد) he takes up the issue from the point where Al-Baironi and Shahrastani had left. In 2004, he motivated many enlightened intellectuals in Abrahamic traditions to debate the common issues on futureislam.com. [11]
In 1992, while the Oslo Peace Accord was in the air, he went on a peace mission to London and Washington DC to convey to the policy makers in these capitals about the Muslim sentiments on Jerusalem. In 1994, he launched from New Delhi a weekly newspaper Milli Times International that ceased publishing in the year 2001. [12] [13]
Professor Rashid Shaz condemned the silence of Aligarh on lynching incidents. [14]