11 Facts About Hisham Kabbani

Hisham Kabbani was a Lebanese-American Sunni Sufi Muslim scholar belonging to the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi order.

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, whose family escaped religious persecution in Tatarstan, Russia.

Hisham Kabbani was a member of the Elijah Interfaith Institute Board of World Religious Leaders.

Shaykh Hisham Kabbani has held meetings with numerous world leaders and has been a key speaker at various conferences, such as the World Economic Forum.

Shaykh Hisham Kabbani wrote a fatwa on the principles of jihad, which was translated into Arabic and distributed by the US military in Iraq.

In 1999, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani came into conflict with various Muslim groups including the Islamic Society of North America, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and the Islamic Circle of North America after he stated that 80 percent of mosques are being run by "extremist ideologies".

Shaykh Hisham Kabbani plunged into further controversy when he accused Muslims who advise the United States about Islam as being "extremists themselves".

When subsequently confronted with the question during the end of the discussion, Hisham Kabbani refused to answer.

In effect, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani is telling government officials that the majority of American Muslims pose a danger to our society.

Shaykh Hisham Kabbani claimed the figure was based on his interviews with religious clerics, educators, community members and young Muslims in 114 mosques in the US over an eight-year period.

In 2001 and 2002 Shaykh Hisham Kabbani was recognized as one of the few Muslim scholars at that time to have warned of the threat of violent extremism.