Hisham Kabbani
American Sufi leader
Hisham Kabbani (28 January 1945 – 4 December 2024) was a Lebanese-American Sunni Sufi Muslim scholar belonging to the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi order. Kabbani has counseled and advised Muslim leaders to build community resilience against violent extremism. In 2012, the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre named him on The 500 Most Influential Muslims.
Biography
Shaykh Kabbani was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Upon the order of Shaykh Nazim, Shaykh Kabbani relocated to the United States in 1990.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani was married to Hajjah Naziha Adil. Hajjah Naziha was the eldest child of Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil and Hajjah Amina bint Ayesha, a Shaykha and Islamic scholar who wrote extensively on lives of the prophets, and whose family escaped religious persecution in Tatarstan, Russia.
Kabbani died in December 2024, at the age of 79.
Activities
Shaykh Hisham and Hajjah Naziha have directed various emergency disaster relief and humanitarian aid projects in Somalia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkey.
Kabbani was also a member of the Elijah Interfaith Institute Board of World Religious Leaders.
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