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NEW DELHI: Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, well-known Indian Muslim journalist and scholar, has been elected unopposed as the new President of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organizations. He was one of the general secretaries of the AIMMM under the outgoing president Syed Shahabuddin. Earlier he was the general secretary of the Movement for the Empowerment of Muslim Indians (MOMIN). India is home to 150 million Muslims, the largest Muslim concentration in the world after Indonesia.
Dr Khan is a member and trustee of many national and international organizations. Three years ago he established Charity Alliance which is taking care of some of the most disadvantaged Muslims in the country, especially in the educational field.
Dr Khan is a seasoned journalist and serious scholar. He authored, edited and translated over 40 books in Arabic, Urdu and English and has authored several articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam (Lieden). He was educated in India, Egypt and UK where he obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester.
Dr Khan is considered a specialist in Middle Eastern and Indian Muslim issues. He has written extensively on Palestine. His works include “Palestine Documents” (Delhi 1998), the only documentary records of its kind in English. In 1988, he established the Institute of Islamic & Arab Studies whose publications include Muslim & Arab Perspectives journal. In January 2000, he started The Milli Gazette which has now become the most popular English-language paper published by Indian Muslims with a world-wide readership.
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