| Ghulam Sabir (born 1925) is the founder and chairman of Iqbal Academy Scandinavia. He is also a life member of Iqbal Academy Pakistan. By profession he is retired airlines executive. He is a writer, a well known Iqbal scholar and has written may articles in Urdu and English on Allama Iqbal’s philosophy of human values.. He is author of the following books:
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Iqbal Sha-i-re Farda (Urdu), published by Iqbal Academy Pakistan..
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Kierkegaard and Iqbal (English), published by Iqbal Academy Pakistan.
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Kierkegaard and Iqbal, translated in Danish under direct supervision of Peter Tudvad, a philosopher and an authority on the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard – published by Forgalet Binslev, Copenhagen.
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Kierkegard and Iqbal, translated in Persian personally by Dr. M. Baghai Makan and published in Iran.
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Iqbal, Religion and Modern Physics, published by Iqbal Academy Pakistan.
E-mail address: sabir@appm.dk
Hadi Hussain Khan (Member of Executive board): Active member of different organisations including
OPSA, a known students organisation in Denmark, Member of
Critical Muslims and Democratic Muslims in Denmark, interested
in politics, history and social work. To him Iqbal’s
philosophy has been a great inspiration and motivation to
navigate in the “fogs” as a unique “sunshine”
in his life.
E-mail: arc@consultant.com
S.E. Aadil Ansari (Member of Executive board): Photographer, journalist
and exhibitor of “Pictures relating to Pakistan”
in
Scandinavia and other European countries; Also founder of
Rehmat-e Noor Educational Foundation Denmark.
A lover of Iqbal and a devoted member of Iqbal Academy Scandinavia.
E-mail: aadilansari@hotmail.com
Perwez Iqbal (Member of Executive board):
A lover of Iqbal, an active board member of Iqbal Academy
Scandinavia and various projects like integration issues
related to ethnic minorities in Denmark. By profession he
is linguistic interpreter and translator. According to him
Iqbal’s philosophy, his devotion to Islam and his
marvellous contribution to the cause of humanity has been
a great motivation to choose the right path in his life.
E-mail: Perweziqbal@hotmail.com
Abid Ali Abid (Member of Executive board): Ex. Lecturer of Government Degree College in
Pakistan; An specialist as functions organiser, a debater,
an active member of different social and welfare organisations,
chairman of Business Forum in Denmark and World Peace Organisation;
one of the most dedicated members of Iqbal Academy Scandinavia
and a lover if Iqbal’s philosophy.
E-mail: Abid@appm.dk
Dr. Iram Khawaja (Member of Executive board): One of the most learned and active lady members
of Iqbal Academy Scandinavia. She is PhD in Social Psychology and currently doing Post Doctorate Research at Danish University of Education, which is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark, inspired by
Iqbal she has founded a youth organisation named as Iqbal
Study Group in Copenhagen for studying the works of Iqbal
in depth.
M. Kamil (Member of Executive board): He is a fine and well educated person, Got Aviation education from British Airways Training Centre, London and served this airlines in the capacity of Station Manger, Islamabad Airport. After resigning from service of British Airways he joined family in Denmark, where he joined PIA as Traffic Officer and worked for another 14 years. Inspired by Allama Iqbal's teaching he has joined IAS in order to serve humanity from this platform.
E-mail: kamil_mohammad@yahoo.dk
Ayaz Mahmud (Member of Executive board): He is highly educated, enthusiastic and a very intelligent young life member of our organisation. He has done his Master in Telecom from DTU, Copenhagen. By profession he is IT Engineer and working with Micro Soft in Denmark. He is extremely keen to learn as much as possible about the philosophy and poetry of Dr. Allama Iqbal.
E-mail: ayaz_mahmud@hotmail.com
Sarosh Alamgir (Member of Executive board): He is a young and highly talented life member of IAS. He obtained a masters degree in computer science from the Oxford university, UK, and currently serving in the capacity of a 'Program Manager' at Microsoft. In the past, he enjoyed a great diversity of positions in different sectors, spending the most amount of time (and the most fun time) in academe as a lecturer at graduate and post graduate levels in Pakistan. He says:
"Iqbal for me is a glorious start of the new era of religious thought and character in Islam, but most certainly not the end!! It is a shame that even after almost a century, Iqbal remains to be the height of our intellectual rise, contrary to what Iqbal said, "there is no such thing as finality in philosophical thinking. As knowledge advances and fresh avenues of thought are opened, other views, and probably sounder views ... are possible. Our duty is carefully to watch the progress of human thought, and to maintain an independent critical attitude towards it"; I go one step further and say (as also frequently craved by Iqbal) that our duty is to 'be' the progress of human thought and character. My dream is to see our youngsters start where Iqbal left, soar above and beyond his great intellectual rise, and with all our energies, intellect and love, keep bound for the ascent to the Mi'raj that we are entitled to achieve. This is the only thing that will keep Iqbal alive, and us as a nation, and as Adam, the Khalifatan Fil Ard".
E-mail: sarosh_alamgir@hotmail.com
Seema Kamil (Member of Executive board): Seema Kamil is one of the prominent life members and a devoted worker of Iqbal Academy Scandinavia. Educated in Pakistan, well versed in Danish and English languages, Seema has been teaching in Danish School for a long time. She not only belongs to a family of Iqbal lovers, being the daughter of the founder of Iqbal Academy Scandinavia, she has played a great role in propagating Iqbal's teachings among the ladies in the society. By doing that she herself has acquired a considerable knowledge in this field. She is expected to be a valuable addition in IAS family. |
