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Islamic Thinkers Society The Islamic Thinkers Society (abbreviated ITS) is an Islamist group based in New York City that seeks the goal of restoring the Islamic Caliphate to create what it calls "an ideal Islamic society." Its members are located mainly in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, United States. The ITS is an offshoot of Al-Muhajiroun, a pro Al-Qaeda British Islamic extremist group.
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Jackson Heights, Queens Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the borough of Queens in New York City. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 3. Jackson Heights is neighbored by North Corona to the east, Elmhurst to the south, Woodside to the west, northern Astoria (Ditmars-Steinway) to the northwest, and East Elmhurst to the northeast. The main ZIP code of Jackson Heights is 11372. According to the 2010 United States Census, the neighborhood has a population of 108,152.
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Nasser Khalili Nasser David Khalili (Persian: ناصر داوود خلیلی‎ ‎ , born 18 December 1945) is a British-Iranian scholar, collector, and philanthropist based in London. He is a British citizen. Khalili is the founder of the Khalili Collections, which is said to include the finest and most comprehensive collection of Islamic art in private hands. Khalili was born in Iran, before leaving the country to study in the United States. He graduated from Queens College, City University of New York in 1974 with a computer science degree. He later received a PhD degree in Islamic art in 1988, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, writing his thesis on Islamic lacquer.
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King David School, Melbourne The King David School is an independent, co-educational, progressive Jewish day school located in Armadale, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school currently caters for approximately 800 students from Pre-School to Year 12, and is affiliated with the Victorian Union of Progressive Judaism.
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Izala Society Izala Society, formally Jama’at Izalat al Bid’a Wa Iqamat as Sunna (Society of Removal of Innovation and Re-establishment of the Sunna), also called JIBWIS, is an Islamic movement originally established in Northern Nigeria to fight what it sees as the "bid’a", (innovation), practiced by the Sufi brotherhoods. It is one of the largest Islamic societies in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon.
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Manhattan Day School Manhattan Day School, often called MDS, is a Modern Orthodox Jewish yeshiva elementary school located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It was founded in 1943. The school has an early childhood department in addition to serving students grades K-8. It also offers a summer camp for children ages 3 – 7, and a science camp for first, second, and third grade students.
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Islamia Primary School Islamia Primary School is a voluntary aided primary, Islamic faith school in Queen's Park, London, England. It is located in the London Borough of Brent.
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Umar Al-Qadri Muhammad Umar Al-Qadri is an Islamic scholar and Sheikh based in Ireland who was born to a Pakistani Muslim scholarly family. His father is Muslim scholar Hazrat Maulana Mehr Ali Qadri, who arrived in late 1970s in Den Haag, Netherlands, to serve as an Imam. Qadri is also the Chair of the Irish Muslim Peace & Integration Council, a national representative Muslim body with presence in Dublin, Cork, Athlone, Port Laoise and Belfast.
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Muslim Leadership Initiative The Muslim Leadership Initiative is a program created by the Shalom Hartman Institute, an Israeli think tank, in summer 2013. The program invites North American Muslims to explore how Jews understand Judaism, Israel, and Jewish peoplehood. The program also encourages participants to experience how Palestinians, both inside and outside Israel, identify themselves, while exploring the issues of ethics, faith, and practice. MLI seeks to expand participants' critical understanding of the complex religious, political, and socioeconomic issues facing people in Israel and Palestine.
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Council on Islamic Education The Council on Islamic Education is a research institute and resource organization in Fountain Valley California. The "Muslim academic scholars of religion, history, political science" at the Council seek to "support and strengthen American public education" by drawing upon "civic, ethical, and educational principles in Islam."
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Darul Uloom Al-Madania Darul Uloom Al-Madania is a private Islamic Seminary in Buffalo, New York that is devoted to producing Islamic scholars and Huffaz.
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Islamic Society of Greater Houston The Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH) is a system of mosques in Greater Houston. It is headquartered at the Eastside Main Center in Upper Kirby in Houston.
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Aga Khan Museum The Aga Khan Museum (French: "Musée Aga Khan" ) is a museum of Islamic art, Iranian (Persian) art and Muslim culture in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is an initiative of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. It houses collections of Islamic art and heritage, including artefacts from the private collections of His Highness the Aga Khan, the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, and Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan, which showcase the artistic, intellectual and scientific contributions of Muslim civilizations.
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Institute of Ismaili Studies The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) is a research institute in London, United Kingdom. It aims to promote the study of Muslim cultures and societies, both historical and contemporary, in order to foster a greater understanding of their relationships with other societies and faiths. It also functions as a gathering point for the Ismaili community as it endeavors to understand its own history and thought, including the often neglected fields of esoteric Islam and Shi‘ism.
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Mohamad Shuif Hussain Mohamad Shuif Hussain (born 1967) is a Bruneian entrepreneur involved in real estate, leisure and hospitality. Shuif is an investor in The Strategic Iconic Assets Heritage Acquisition Fund (SIAHAF) and a Director of AAFM Investments in Brunei Darusalam. Hussain is one of the principals behind the recent acquisition of large parts of the Queensway district of West London with a view to the redevelopment of the area. He was educated at the Science School in Brunei, Millfield School in Somerset and Leicester Polytechnic.
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Woodside, Queens Woodside is a working- and middle-class residential and commercial neighborhood in the western portion of the borough of Queens in New York City. It is bordered on the south by Maspeth, on the north by Astoria, on the west by Sunnyside, and on the east by Elmhurst and Jackson Heights. Some areas are widely residential and very quiet, while other parts, especially the ones around Roosevelt Avenue, are busier. The neighborhood is located in Queens Community Board 1 and Queens Community Board 2.
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Social Justice Society The Social Justice Society (SJS) is a registered national political party in the Philippines composed of citizens of the Philippines from all walks of life who are bound by a common concern or interest in the promotion of social justice for all sectors of Philippine society under the concept of "equal justice for all."
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Islamic Texts Society The Islamic Texts Society (ITS) is a peer-reviewed, British publishing house which concentrates on academic and general titles on Islam. It is registered as an educational charity in the UK. ITS publications have become a family name among English-speaking Muslims worldwide, and a de facto standard in the world of Islamic studies.
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Muslim World League The Muslim World League (Rabitat al-Alam al-Islami, Arabic: رابطة العالم الاسلامي‎ ‎ , ] ) is Pan-Islamic NGO based in Makkah, Saudi Arabia that propagates Islamic teachings. The NGO was funded by the Saudi government from its inception in 1962, with that contribution growing to approximately $13 million by 1980. Because of the Saudi funding, the League is widely regarded as promoting Wahhabism. "The Oxford Dictionary of Islam" says that "the group has acted as a mouthpiece for the Saudi Arabian government, which finances it."
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Muhammad Rizieq Shihab Muhammad Rizieq Shihab (; "] ") also known as Habib Rizieq (born in Jakarta, August 24, 1965) is an Indonesian Islamic scholar, demagogue, the founder and leader of the Islamist group Islamic Defenders Front (Arabic: الجبهة الدفاعة الاسلميه‎ ‎ ; Indonesian: "Front Pembela Islam" , abbreviated as FPI).
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Baghdadi Jews Baghdadi Jews, also known as Iraqi Jews, are Jewish emigrants from Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, which not only includes Jews from the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, but from other areas of Iraq, as well as Jews from Syrian and Yemenite origin.
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Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey Rafi Yahya Abdullah Sharif-Bey (February 28, 1940 – March 2, 2006) was a pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States. He was a co-founder of the Sufi group The Noble Order of Moorish Sufis, the head Mufti of Moorish Science Temple #13 in Baltimore, and involved in the Ahmadiyyah movement.