Sadat Husaini
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Syed Sadatullah Husaini(سید سعادت حسینی) is the former National President of Students Islamic Organisation of India
and Member of Central Advisory Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
. He also heads the Study and Research Department of JIH as its Director. He is a Hyderabad based writer, thinker and activist.
town of Maharashtra
,where he completed his graduate studies in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. During his student days he has been associated with Students Islamic Organisation of India
and has been its President for two terms (1999–2003)
and is on the boards of many social and academic organisations in Hyderabad, Bangalore
, Delhi
and Aligarh.
stands for globalization and universal brotherhood, modern globalization
is a tool of exploitation and creates economic and social inequality. The globalization
has resulted into the monopoly of western cultural and ethical values and has undermined the political soveregnity of the nation states.
societies and the modern western societies for their treatment of women. According to him, the traditional Muslim societies have not given the women their due place and rights as stipulated by Islam
, while the modern western societies have snatched from women the femininity and the very essence of womanhood in lieu of equality.
is to engage in healthy dialogue with majority non Muslim communities and contribute positively in the nation-building. He has been critic of the conspiracy theories, blame games and ghettoist politics and has always urged the fellow Muslims to develop positive mental attitude and strengthen the communication channels with the majority community in India.
is logically incorrect notion and it is an extreme reaction of Modernism
. According to him, the position of Islam that divinely revealed truths are absolute and all other truths are relative, is a perfectly balanced notion that is free from the contradictions of postmodernism. He has supported the Transmodernism
notion of Ziauddin Sardar
, and argued that Islam is a transmodern reality.
Last five of the above books were translated in Telugu, Kannada and Hindi also.
His detail interview has been published in the following book
He has published more than 200 articles in Urdu and English.
Following article has been widely published and translated.
Students Islamic Organisation of India
Students Islamic Organization of India is the students' wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. Students Islamic Organisation was formed in 1982. According to its constitution, it aims at presenting Da’wah before students and youth, promote virtues, and moral values in educational institutions.The...
and Member of Central Advisory Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is one of the influential and hardline Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in India...
. He also heads the Study and Research Department of JIH as its Director. He is a Hyderabad based writer, thinker and activist.
Brief biography
Sadat Husaini was educated in the NandedNanded
Nanded is the second largest city in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, India. It is also headquarters of Nanded district in the Marathwada Division of the state. It is an important holy place for the Sikh faith and is famous for the Hazur Sahib Gurudwara. It is the district headquarters once...
town of Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
,where he completed his graduate studies in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. During his student days he has been associated with Students Islamic Organisation of India
Students Islamic Organisation of India
Students Islamic Organization of India is the students' wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. Students Islamic Organisation was formed in 1982. According to its constitution, it aims at presenting Da’wah before students and youth, promote virtues, and moral values in educational institutions.The...
and has been its President for two terms (1999–2003)
Social activism
Sadat Husaini is the youngest member of the Markazi Majlis-e-Shura of Jamaat-e-Islami HindJamaat-e-Islami Hind
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is one of the influential and hardline Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in India...
and is on the boards of many social and academic organisations in Hyderabad, Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
and Aligarh.
Globalization and capitalism
He is of the view that although IslamIslam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
stands for globalization and universal brotherhood, modern globalization
Globalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
is a tool of exploitation and creates economic and social inequality. The globalization
Globalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
has resulted into the monopoly of western cultural and ethical values and has undermined the political soveregnity of the nation states.
Feminism and women
Sadat Husaini is critical of both the traditional MuslimMuslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
societies and the modern western societies for their treatment of women. According to him, the traditional Muslim societies have not given the women their due place and rights as stipulated by Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
, while the modern western societies have snatched from women the femininity and the very essence of womanhood in lieu of equality.
Muslim Politics in India
Sadat is of the view that the right path for Muslims in plural societies like IndiaIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
is to engage in healthy dialogue with majority non Muslim communities and contribute positively in the nation-building. He has been critic of the conspiracy theories, blame games and ghettoist politics and has always urged the fellow Muslims to develop positive mental attitude and strengthen the communication channels with the majority community in India.
Postmodernism
In an exclusive paper Sadat has argued that PostmodernismPostmodernism
Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...
is logically incorrect notion and it is an extreme reaction of Modernism
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
. According to him, the position of Islam that divinely revealed truths are absolute and all other truths are relative, is a perfectly balanced notion that is free from the contradictions of postmodernism. He has supported the Transmodernism
Transmodernism
Transmodernism is a philosophical and cultural movement which was founded by Argentinian-Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel, a critic of postmodernism who instead refers to himself as a transmodernist and wrote a series of essays criticising the postmodern theory and advocating a transmodern way of...
notion of Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar is a London-based scholar, writer and cultural-critic who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futures studies and science and cultural relations...
, and argued that Islam is a transmodern reality.
Books and Articles
He has so far published following books- Ikkeswin Sadi Meain islam Musalman aur Technology (Urdu): Published by MMI Publishers New Delhi
- Sang hai Mile (Urdu): SIP Publications New Delhi
- Campus Guide (Urdu): SIP Publications New Delhi
- Hindustani Muslamanon Ka Laih Amal
- Globalization And Muslim Youth (Tamil): Islamic Foundation Trust Chennai
- Khwateen Meain Islami Tahreek (Urdu): Hijab Publications New Delhi
- Ma baad Jadeediyat ka challenge aur Islam: MMI Publishers New Delhi
- Globalization aur Sarmaya Darana Istemar: MMI Publishers New Delhi
- Sarmaya Darana Istemar Aur Khawateen: MMI Publishers New Delhi
- Sarmaya Darana Istemar aur Maliyati Istehsal: MMI Publishers New Delhi
- Istemar Ka Taraqqiyyati Model: MMI Publishers New Delhi
- Sarmaya Darana Istemar aur Maholitai Bohran (Jointly authored): MMI Publishers New Delhi
Last five of the above books were translated in Telugu, Kannada and Hindi also.
His detail interview has been published in the following book
- Muslim Leadership in India: Global Media Publications New Delhi
He has published more than 200 articles in Urdu and English.
Following article has been widely published and translated.
- Cyberistan ki Muaashirat
See also
- Jamaat-e-Islami HindJamaat-e-Islami HindJamaat-e-Islami Hind is one of the influential and hardline Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in India...
- Students Islamic Organisation of IndiaStudents Islamic Organisation of IndiaStudents Islamic Organization of India is the students' wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. Students Islamic Organisation was formed in 1982. According to its constitution, it aims at presenting Da’wah before students and youth, promote virtues, and moral values in educational institutions.The...
- Jalaluddin UmriJalaluddin UmriSyed Jalaluddin Umri Syed Jalaluddin Umri Syed Jalaluddin Umri (Urdu: السيّد جلال الدین عمری Arabic: سيّد جلال الدین العمری(Born in 1935) is the present Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind...
- Malik Motasim KhanMalik Motasim KhanMalik Motasim Khan, was the Ameer-e-Halqa of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa during 2007-11. He was also the National President of the Students' wing of Jamaat, the Students Islamic Organisation of India for a term....