{"id":3707,"date":"2025-04-13T18:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2025-04-13T18:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:06:23","slug":"former-ji-leader-professor-khurshid-ahmad-passes-away-in-uk-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3707","title":{"rendered":"Former JI leader Professor Khurshid Ahmad passes away in UK at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Professor Khurshid Ahmad, former deputy chief of Jamaat-e-Islami and a renowned Islamic economist, passed away in Leicester, United Kingdom, at the age of 93, the party\u2019s spokesperson confirmed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A prominent scholar and former senator,\u00a0Ahmad was a close associate of Jamaat-e-Islami founder Syed Abul A\u2019la Maududi. Over the decades, he authored several books and was widely respected for his contributions to Islamic economics and socio-political thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Khurshid Ahmad was one of the pioneering thinkers of Islamic economics and an institution in himself,\u201d the party said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of his lifelong services to Islam and scholarship, Ahmad received the King Faisal International Prize in 1990. In 2011, he was awarded the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, one of the\u00a0highest civilian honours. He was also the recipient of the first Islamic Development Bank Award.<\/p>\n<p>JI chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, along with senior leaders including Liaqat Baloch, expressed deep sorrow over his demise. \u201cHis departure is an irreparable loss to the intellectual world and Islamic movement,\u201d Rehman stated.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements are yet to be announced by the family.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Khurshid Ahmad, former deputy chief of Jamaat-e-Islami and a renowned Islamic economist, passed away in Leicester, United Kingdom, at the age of 93, the party\u2019s spokesperson confirmed on Sunday. A prominent scholar and former senator,\u00a0Ahmad was a close associate of Jamaat-e-Islami founder Syed Abul A\u2019la Maududi. Over the decades, he authored several books and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}