Ehsan Elahi Zaheer

Islamic scholar Ehsan Elahi Zaheer
Died	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Other names	Ihsan Ilahi Zahir; Ehsaan.
Era	Modern era
Religion	Islam
Creed	Ahle Hadith
Main interest(s)	Salafism

Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (Urdu: احسان الہی ظہیر‎) (May 31, 1945 – March 30, 1987) was a Pakistani Islamic theologian and leader of the Ahl al-Hadith movement.^[1][2] He died from an assassin's bomb blast in 1987.

Biography

Views

Zaheer believed that Shi'ites were Israeli agents^[3] and infidels.^[4]

Death

While giving a speech, a bomb, which had been planted on the stage exploded killing Zaheer He was burried in Madina Saudi Arabia at Jannat ul Baqi beside the grave of Imam Malik .^[5]

Works

• Al-Qadiyaniyyah, a refutation of Ahmadiyyah (1376 AH)^[6]

References

1. Ravinder Kaur, Religion, Violence and Political Mobilisation in South Asia, p 153. ISBN 0761934308
2. Roy, Olivier, The Failure of Political Islam, by Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk, Harvard University Press, 1994, p.118-9
3. Commins, David (2015-03-30). Islam in Saudi Arabia. I.B.Tauris. p. 170. ISBN 9781848858015.
4. Moghadam, Assaf (2011-07-21). Militancy and Political Violence in Shiism: Trends and Patterns. Routledge. p. 166. ISBN 9781136663536.
5. Derrick M. Nault, Development in Asia: Interdisciplinary, Post-neoliberal, and Transnational Perspectives, p 184. ISBN 1599424886
6. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Al-Qadiyania-Ehsan-ilahi-zaheer/dp/B007OVXODI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409218638&sr=8-1&keywords=Ehsan+ilahi+zaheer