![]() His initial interests were in literature and philosophy. He went on to graduate from Government College, Lahore, with a BA Honours in English Literature in 1972. His first exposure to traditional Islamic studies was in the Sufi tradition. His father wanted him to have both traditional and modern education, splitting his time between school and learning Arabic and Persian. ![]() Born in 1951, he grew up in a Sufi household. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is a Pakistani Islamic scholar who has for the past four decades questioned and sought to answer the status quo within Islam and Muslims. It would be a grave misdoing to ignore his presence. So rarely does history give us the opportunity to witness the likes of Ghamidi. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is a force to be reckoned with in the realms of Islamic Sciences. He has explored almost every old school and has set out to restructure the age-old narratives of Islam. A short, humble, witty old man has been creating tremors in the world of Islam that a few have noticed and many do not want to. ![]()
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