Abdullah Nooruddeen Durkee was a Muslim scholar, thinker, author, translator and the Khalifah for North America of the Shadhdhuli School for Tranquility of Being and the Illumination of Hearts, Green Mountain Branch.
24 Facts About Nooruddeen Durkee
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Nooruddeen Durkee became a Muslim in his early thirties in Al-Quds, Jerusalem.
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Nooruddeen Durkee was one of the co-founders of Lama Foundation and founder of Dar al-Islam Foundation.
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Nooruddeen Durkee maintained a Zawiya at the Islamic Study Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, which is the location of The Green Mountain School, the third school Nooruddeen founded.
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Abdullah Nooruddeen Durkee was born Stephen Durkee in 1938 in Warwick, New York.
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Nooruddeen Durkee grew up with his grandmother, a devout Catholic and herbalist, in Greenwood Lake, New York.
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Nooruddeen Durkee's paintings are now in various private collections as well as the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
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Nooruddeen Durkee founded USCO along with Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan and created the first multimedia lightshows.
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Nooruddeen Durkee traveled and exhibited at universities and museums throughout the northeast and had a large exhibition at the Tibetan Museum in New York City.
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Nooruddeen Durkee organized, edited, and produced Ram Dass' book Be Here Now, an international best-seller.
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Nooruddeen Durkee traveled in the desert regions of North America and embarked on excursions to the Indian Subcontinent and Middle East, where he first came into contact with Muslims.
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Nooruddeen Durkee benefited from the teaching of Noor-i-Muhammad, a Naqshbandi from Bokhara who lived and taught within the city.
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Nooruddeen Durkee served from 1980 to 1988 as President of Dar al-Islam.
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Nooruddeen Durkee wrote Orison of Shadhdhuliyyah as well as a second volume on the subject, Origins of the Shadhdhuliyyah.
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Nooruddeen Durkee began the first work on the Tajwidi Qur'an.
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In 1986, Nooruddeen Durkee was appointed by Ibrahim al-Batawi as his Khalifah in the Western Hemisphere.
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Nooruddeen Durkee studied the science of Muraqabah with the Mujaddidi Naqshabandi Shaykh, Dr Seyed 'Ali Ashraf, professor of Islamic Education at King Abdu-l-Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and later Professor of Education at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, who granted him an 'Ijaza to teach Muraqabah.
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Nooruddeen Durkee established the an-Noor Foundation, a non-profit 501, specifically for the publication of the Tajiwidi Qur'an and for the propagation of traditional moderate Islam.
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Nooruddeen Durkee translated the Tajwidi Qur'an from its original Arabic to English and published it as The Transliterated Tajwidi Qur'an in 2003.
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Nooruddeen Durkee aimed to make the translation contemporary and understandable while maintaining respect for the original text.
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Nooruddeen Durkee translated these passages in collaboration with Dr Ma'ddawi az-Zirr and then edited and prepared it for publishing during his five year stay in Alexandria.
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Nooruddeen Durkee co-founded Dar al-Islam, a non-profit educational organization, in 1979.
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In 1975, while studying at the Markaz al-Lughat al-Arabiyyah in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Nooruddeen Durkee met a businessman and industrialist named Sahl Kabbani who was to become his partner in the endeavor of Dar al-Islam.
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Nooruddeen Durkee founded the Lama Foundation in New Mexico in 1967.