Dawat-e-Islami

Dawat-e-Islami
دعوتِ اسلامی
Total population
30 to 40 million
Founder
Ilyas Qadri[1]
Religions
Islam
Scriptures
Languages
  • Liturgical: Arabic
  • In India and Pakistan: Urdu
  • In the diaspora:
  • In the UK: Respective regional languages
Website
www.dawateislami.net

Dawat-e-Islami (Urdu: دعوتِ اسلامی) is a Sunni Islamic organization based in Pakistan. It has several Islamic educational institutions around the world.

In addition to local charity efforts, Dawat-e-Islami offers online courses in Islamic studies and runs a television station, Madani Channel.[2] It is associated with global Preaching of Peace which counters terrorism. Dawat-e-Islami was officially founded in Karachi in September 1981 by leading scholars who selected Ilyas as its main leader.[3][4]

  1. ^ N. K. Singh (2015). global encyclopaedia of islamic mystics and mysticism. India: Global Vision Publishing House, India. p. 270. ISBN 978-81-8220-673-1.
  2. ^ Akram, Nafees (2012). Imam Ahmed Raza Khan and the Dawat-e-Islami Movement: Islamic Revival through social reform (Ph.D). University of Bristol.
  3. ^ Gugler, Thomas K. (2010), "The New Religiosity of Tablīghī Jamāʿat and Daʿwat-e Islāmī and the Transformation of Islam in Europe", Anthropos, 105 (1): 121–136, doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2010-1-121, JSTOR 25734742
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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