Feisal Abdul Rauf
Feisal Abdul Rauf | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia University (BS) Stevens Institute of Technology (MS) |
Occupation(s) | Imam, author, landlord |
Known for | Sponsor and director of Park51 |
Feisal Abdul Rauf (
He has condemned the
Early life
Rauf was born in
Career
After finishing college, Rauf focused on religion, and became the leader of a New York City mosque.[12] Rauf has written three books on Islam and its place in contemporary Western society, including What's Right with Islam, later printed in paperback with the changed title What's Right with Islam is What's Right with America.[13] Rauf served as imam of Masjid al-Farah in New York City's Tribeca district between 1983 and 2009.[4]
Rauf is a friend of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order, and in 1983, he was appointed prayer leader at their Masjid al-Farah mosque.[14] In 1997, he founded the American Sufi Muslim Society (ASMA),[15] which has since been renamed the American Society for Muslim Advancement. Rauf worked to improve relationships between American society, the American Muslim community and the wider Muslim world. He founded the American Society for Muslim Advancement (originally named the American Sufi Muslim Association.[16])
The organization is now headed by his wife.
Post-9/11
Following the
Speaking at his New York mosque in 2004, Imam Feisal said: "The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians. But it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets." He also said that there could be little progress in Western-Islamic relations until the U.S. acknowledged backing Middle East dictators and give an "American Culpa" speech to the Muslim world, because there are "an endless supply of angry young Muslim rebels prepared to die for their cause and there [is] no sign of the attacks ending unless there [is] a fundamental change in the world".[32]
Responding to a question during an interview on New York
Park51
Controversy over the location—in close proximity to
On January 14, 2011, Park51 developer Sharif el-Gamal surprised Rauf by unilaterally announcing that Rauf would no longer speak for or raise money for Park51, replacing him with Imam Abdallah Adhami. The split was attributed to a number of differences in vision for the project—Rauf had wanted a larger interfaith center named Cordoba House, but el-Gamal had changed the name to Park51, wanted it to primarily serve Muslims, and to have a local scope. The removal of Rauf from this leadership role raised concerns that the project would be unable to raise the necessary funds to build the planned center.[38] On January 29, Rauf announced that he would move the Cordoba House to a different site if one were offered to him and if the new site was "on par, or even better" than the current Park51 site.[39]
Rental properties
Rauf owns several apartment buildings in
A September 15, 2010 hearing revealed that following a September 7 inspection that determined imminent hazards, police began monitoring two of Rauf's buildings, due to inoperable fire alarms and sprinklers, and failure on Rauf's part to hire a private fire patrol. Judge Thomas Olivieri gave Rauf's lawyers until September 23 to produce plans and evidence of efforts to address these violations, lest Rauf face loss of control over the buildings.[42] On November 9, Judge Olivieri placed the Central Avenue property into temporary custodial receivership, with $7,000 in rent payments held in escrow from Rauf's attorney set aside to pay for the repairs.[43][44]
According to 2010 reports by the
Reception
Fareed Zakaria praised Rauf for speaking of "the need for Muslims to live peacefully with all other religions", for emphasizing the commonalities among all faiths, for advocating equal rights for women and opposing laws that in any way punish non-Muslims.[45]
Walter Isaacson, head of
Views on Hamas
During an interview on New York
Personal life
Rauf's first wife was an American woman who converted to Islam. Rauf later married a Malaysian woman. Rauf has two children with each of his first two wives. He has been married to his third wife Daisy Khan since the late 1990s.[10] Khan, a native of Kashmir, is a professional interior architect, but since 2005 has worked full-time for the two non-profit organizations founded by Rauf,[52] and at times functions as his spokesperson. They live in North Bergen, New Jersey.[12]
Selected bibliography
Books
- Feisal Abdul Rauf, Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America (ISBN 9781451656015
- Feisal Abdul Rauf, What's Right with Islam: a New Vision for Muslims and the West (ISBN 978-0-06-075062-6. (An Indonesian language edition was published in 2007, titled Seruan Azan Dari Puing WTC: Dakwah Islam di Jantung Amerika Pasca 9/11, which translates as A Call to Prayer from the WTC Rubble: Islamic Dawah from the Heart of America Post 911)[53][54]
- Feisal Abdul Rauf, Islam: A Sacred Law (Threshold Books, 2000) ISBN 978-0-939660-70-4
- Feisal Abdul Rauf, Islam: A Search for Meaning (Mazda Publishers, 1996) ISBN 978-1-56859-037-0
- Feisal Abdul Rauf and Laleh Bakhtiar, Quran for Children (Kazi Publications, 1985) ISBN 978-0-935782-08-0
Other writings
- "Building on Faith", The New York Times. September 7, 2010.
- "Need for some cultural sensitivity", The Star (Malaysia). May 12, 2010.
- "Using Qur'anic Narratives in Pursuit of Peace", Common Ground News Service, March 4, 2010.
- "Putting the faith back", The Star (Malaysia). December 30, 2009.
- "Religion must be part of the Afghanistan solution", The Star (Malaysia). October 12, 2009.
- "Sharing the core of our beliefs", Common Ground News Service, March 31, 2009.
- "Religious organisations are key to Mideast peace", Common Ground News Service, March 5, 2009.
- "Preventing Chaos", The Star (Malaysia). March 9, 2008.
- "Asceticism in Islam", Cross Currents. Winter, 2008, (vol. 57 No. 4) ed. by Pederson, Kusumita.
- "The Ideals We Share"[permanent dead link], Newsweek. July 31, 2007. with Khan, Daisy.
- "The End of Barbarism: The Phenomenon of Torture and the Search for Common Good", Pursuing the Global Common Good: Principle and Practice in US Foreign Policy. Washington, DC: Center for American Progress. 2007. with Schulz, William F., ed. by Steenland, Sally, et al. video
- "What is Sunni Islam?" in Voices of Islam: Voices of Tradition, vol. 1 of 3, ed. Cornell, Vincent J. Westport: Praeger. 2007.
- "Al-Qaeda's Greatest Fear may be US Leaving Iraq". Aspen Times. October 11, 2006. with Bennett, John.
- "Arab Reform Final Report". New York: Council on Foreign Relations. 2005. with Albright, Madeleine, et al.
- "Bringing Muslim Nations into the Global Century", Fortune. October 18, 2004.
- "To wear scarf or not to wear scarf", The Star (Malaysia). August 19, 2014.
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External links
- Feisal Abdul Rauf "On Faith" column archives at The Washington Post/Newsweek (2008 to present)
- Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf at Beliefnet, includes columns
- Appearances Archived 2012-01-28 at the Wayback Machine on C-SPAN