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About Dr. Fakhri

HONORING
DR. MUHAMMAD ABDUL WAHEED FAKHRI
A Founding member of IQRA’
International Educational Foundation

We at IQRA’ are deeply sadden to have lost today, February 22, 2011, one of our founding figures, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Waheed Fakhri. Dr. Fakhri was born into a religiously observant family from Jalandhar, East Punjab. He received his higher education in Pakistan (Punjab University) and in the USA (University of Michigan), where he combined in his character deep personal piety, professional skill, and excellence of scholarship, traits which he continues to display to the very end of his life. He worked as a professor of curriculum and administration at the Chicago State University, and passed his rich experience to the community without demanding compensation or desiring recognition.

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New Year….New Diet

(The Islamic Way)

Alhamdulillah a New Year (1432 / 2011) has approached us. As we look back at our passed year many of us tend to make new goals for the year ahead.  View any list of top ten New Year’s resolutions and you will often see DIETING at the top of it.

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Dr. Muhammad Abdo Yamani (1938-2010)

(A Tribute from Dr. Abidullah Ghazi)

The passing of Dr. Muhammad Abdo Yamani on the 8th of November comes as a deep and personal loss for me as well as for our institution, IQRA’ International Educational Foundation (“Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun”). I am sure that similar sentiments are felt worldwide by all those who have met and benefited from Dr. Yamani’s insight and support.

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