A BRIEF PROFILE

DR. ABU AMEENAH BILAL PHILIPS

FOUNDER & DEAN OF ISLAMIC ONLINE UNIVERSITY

http://bais.islamiconlineuniversity.com/

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Twahir Hussein Kassim BSc IT (Hons) Youth of Mombasa Presented as a requirement to host Forum for students at Mombasa Polytechic University College The Official Website of Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips www.bilalphilips.com 25th January 2012

Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips A brief Profile

Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 1 Brief Introduction to Dr. Abu Ameenah Philips ....................................................................................... 1 Books Authored ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Some links on Dr. Abu ameenah Bilal Philps ........................................................................................... 4

Introduction
Muslim Youth in Kenya have invited the world renown scholar to Kenya in view of challenging the minds of the youth and forging them to be better World citizens. During this trip it has been planned that he holds a lecture at the Mombasa Polytechnic giving credence to the Importance of Ilm (knowledge) in our daily life.

It is envisaged that he will meet with students and scholars to exchange views, thus the choice of Mombasa Polytechnic University College as a venue being the cradle of higher learning in the coastal region and its historical beginnings.

Brief Introduction to Dr. Abu Ameenah Philips

Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips is a Jamaican Canadian Islamic Scholar who converted to Islam in the early seventies after journeying politically and intellectually from Christianity to Communism. Shortly after his reversion to Islam, he embarked on a spiritual academic journey to the other side of the world seeking Islamic knowledge. This journey took him to Saudi Arabia where he completed a BA in Islamic studies in Madeenah, and an MA in Islamic Theology in Riyadh, then to the University of Wales, UK, where he completed a PhD in Islamic Theology in the early nineties.

After graduation from Madeenah, Dr Bilal became a teacher of Islamic studies for 10 years in an Islamic High School, Manaret Riyadh, and a lecturer of Arabic and Islamic studies in the American University in Dubai, UAE, for another 10 years. During his 10 years in the UAE, he founded and 1|Page

Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips A brief Profile

taught at the Islamic Information Center in Dubai, and during his subsequent 7 years in Qatar he has been an Islamic consultant and lecturer for the Islamic Information wing of Sh. Eid Charity.

Dr Bilal Philips has written, translated and commented on over 50 published books on various Islamic topics. He has also edited and published the 56 book Eemaan Reading Series for children and presented Islamic programs for a number of years on Riyadh Channel 2TV, Sharjah TV for ten years, as well as Peace TV, Huda TV, Islam Channel, UK, and the Deen Show, Chicago, USA.

There is no time for holidays, says Bilal Philips, when you realise how little time there is, and how much work has to be done for Islam.

In 2002 Dr Philips founded and headed the Islamic studies department of Preston University, Ajman, UAE, and in 2007 he founded and headed the Islamic Studies Academy, Doha, Qatar, while simultaneously launching the Islamic Online University (www.islamiconlineuniversity.com) which is currently offering free Islamic courses to over 30,000 registered students from over 177 different countries world wide, and for which he was included in the Jordanian publication, The 500 Most Influential Muslims (rissc.jo/muslim500v-1L.pdf). Dr Bilal subsequently founded and headed, in 2008, the English medium Islamic studies department of Knowledge International University (www.kiu.org), whos Chancellor is Shaikh Dr. Abdur-Rahman ibn Abdil-Azeez Al Sudais and whos President of the board of trustees is Shaikh Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullah Al Shaikh, Mufti of Saudi Arabia. More recently, in 2009, Dr Bilal Philips founded and headed the College of Dawah and Islamic Culture (English Section), Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan, and established and directed Preston International College (www.prestonchennai.ac.in) in Chennai, India. In March of this year (2010) Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips launched, for the first time in history, an accredited tuition-free BA in Islamic Studies degree course at the Islamic Online University

(bais.islamiconlineuniversity.com).

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Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips A brief Profile Books Authored

1. A Commentary on Ibnudaamahs Radiance of Faith 2. Arabic Grammar Made Easy 3. Arabic Reading and Writing Made Easy 4. Did God Become Man 5. Dream Interpretation 6. Funeral Rites in Islam 7. Hajj and Umrah 8. Islamic Rules On Menstruation and Post-Natal Bleeding 9. Islamic Studies Book 1 10. Islamic Studies Book 2 11. Islamic Studies Book 3 12. Islamic Studies Book4 13. Polygamy in Islam 14. Riyaa The Hidden Shirk 15. Salvation Through Repentance 16. Studies in Islam 17. Tafseer Soorah Al-Hujuraat 18. The Ansar Cult in America 19. The Best in Islam 20. The Book of Monotheism 21. The Exorcist Tradition in Islam 22. Tauhid 23. The Evolution of Fiqh 24. The Evolution of Fiqh 25. The Foundations of Islamic Studies 26. The Fundamentals of Tawheed 27. The Purpose of Creation 28. The Purpose of Creation 29. The Quran's Numerical Miracle: Hoax and Heresy 30. The True Message of Jesus Christ 31. The True Religion of God 32. Usool Al Hadeeth

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33. Usool Al Fiqh 34. Usool Al Tafseer 35. A Simple Call To One God 36. Quran and Modern Science

Some links on Dr. Abu ameenah Bilal Philps

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http://www.bilalphilips.com http://blog.bilalphilips.com/ http://www.halaltube.com/speaker/bilal-philips http://www.famousmuslims.com/Bilal%20Philips.htm http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/purification/0042.htm http://bais.islamiconlineuniversity.com/

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