{"id":382,"date":"2009-07-15T03:59:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T01:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?page_id=382"},"modified":"2016-09-26T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:24:44","slug":"abdassamad-clarke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?page_id=382","title":{"rendered":"Abdassamad Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abdassamad Clarke is a scholar, author and commentator from Ulster and was formally educated at Edinburgh University in Mathematics and Physics, and in Cairo in Arabic and tajwid<\/em> and other Islamic sciences. He accepted Islam at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi<\/a> in 1973. In the 80s he was secretary to the Imam of the Dublin Mosque<\/a> Shaykh Yahya Muhammad al-Hussein, and he has been imam khatib of the Norwich\u00a0Mosque<\/a>, from 1991-1993 and from 2002 until the present.<\/p>\n

In Dublin, he wrote as a freelance journalist for the the Irish Times, Irish Press and Sunday Press writing on Islam, the Middle East and other issues, for The Phoenix which published his satire on Salman Rushdie<\/a> and an article on Mary Robinson, the then President of Ireland, and her links to the Tri-Lateral Commission, for Common Ground to which he contributed a series of articles on banking, usury, and their history and alternative currencies, and for The Aisling to which he contributed an article on Ivan Illich.<\/p>\n

Since then he has continued to write longer and shorter pieces on contemporary issues, and his writings are published regularly on-line at the Muslims of Norwich<\/a>, the Norwich Conference Network<\/a>, the Open Trade Network<\/a> and his own blog<\/a> and he continues to contribute shorter posts regularly online through a variety of social media including Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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