Muzaffar Iqbal

Muzaffar Iqbāl (Punjabi/Urdu: مظفر اقبال; born December 3, 1954, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and author.

Career

Iqbal is the President of Center for Islamic Sciences, Canada. Previously he has worked at University of Multan, Pakistan (1977-1979), University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada (1979-84), where he taught Chemistry, South-East Asian Studies Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984-85), where he taught Urdu language and literature, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) of McGill University (1986-87), where he worked on development of radio-active tracer drugs for imaging brain cancer, Wood Buffalo National Park, Fort Chipewyan, Alberta (1989), where he worked at the Warden's office. Between 1990-1999, he lived and worked in Islamabad, Pakistan: During 1992-1996, he was Director (Scientific Information) at the Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation of the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation), abbreviated as COMSTECH. In 1996, he resigned in protest and in 1998, joined Pakistan Academy of Sciences as Director (International Scientific Cooperation). He moved back to Canada in 1999 and between 1999 and 2002, he was the Director of Science and Religion course program of the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences (CTNS), Berkeley, a research center of the Graduate Theological Union. In 2000, Iqbal established the Center for Islam and Science, Alberta, Canada, (renamed Center for Islamic Sciences in 2013). As the founding President of CIS, Director Iqbal travelled in Europe, the Muslim World, and some parts of Far East in relation to his research and teaching work in Islam and Science discourse. Since 2008, he has devoted most of his work to Qur'anic studies. In 2009, he initiated a project to produce the first English language encyclopedia of the Qur'an exclusively based on fourteen c