SDO Mentor
Ahmad Von Denffer
(Born May 10, 1949 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German non-fiction author, translator, and Muslim religious official. He comes from a German-Baltic family.
Life
From 1972 to 1978 he studied Islamic studies and ethnology at the University of Mainz . From 1978 to 1984 he was a research associate at the Islamic Foundation in Leicester (England), which is close to the Islamist Pakistani Jamaat-e-Islami and the teachings of Maududi . It was headed by KhurramMurad , with whom von Denffer later co-authored books. In 1984 he became a consultant for German-speaking affairs at the Islamic Center in Munich , whose director at the time was Mahdi Akef , later the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood . Ahmad Von Denffer is the editor of the magazine "Al-Islam".
In 1984 he became a founding member of the International Islamic Charitable Foundation in Kuwait. From 1986 to 1988 and from 1993 to 2011 he was chairman of Muslims Helping e. V., and since 1995 a trustee of Muslim Aid International in London. In 1989 von Denffer published a translation of Al-Qaradawi's book Permitted and Forbidden in Islam and in 1996 a German translation of the Koran as well as numerous other books. On June 4, 2005, he was elected to the Shura Council of the Islamic Center in Munich.
