Khurram Murad


Khurram Jah Murad was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and writer. He was born in Bhopal, British Raj, current day India. While his preaching activities began in Pakistan, he has been involved in the promotion of the Islamic movement in Asia, Europe and Africa. As chief of the training departments of the Jamiat, the Jamaat and as an active resource-person in training programmes in the UK, he played a key role in the character-building of the youth in the Islamic Movement.

Education

Murad graduated with a Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, from NED University of Engineering and Technology. He also completed a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Career

Murad served as Naib Amir of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan and Amir in Bangladesh, a Trustee and a former Director General of the Islamic Foundation in Leicester, UK, and editor of Tarjumanal Qur'an, Lahore, Pakistan, and the quarterly Muslim World Book Review, UK. He was also a prisoner of war for many years in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.
From 1975–1976, he was involved in the extension project of Masjid al-Haram in Mecca as he was a civil engineer by profession. During his time in NED he gained stature as a student leader and later served as Nazim-e-Ala of Islami Jamiat Talaba for session 1951–52.

Publications

His works include:
Some of his booklets in Urdu are: