Muzaffar Iqbal

This page is about the scholar Muzaffar Iqbal. For other people named Iqbal, see Iqbal

Muzaffar Iqbāl (born 1954 in Lahore, Pakistan) (Urdu:مظفر اقبال), is the founding president of the Center for Islam and Science, located in Canada and an author. In 2003, the Center started an international journal of Islamic perspectives on science, Islam and Science (http://www.cis-ca.org/journal), with Dr. Iqbal being its founder-editor. Iqbal is an outspoken advocate of intelligent design and a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design.

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Iqbal was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1954. He graduated from the University of the Punjab, Lahore in 1976. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1983,^[1] but thereafter worked only briefly as a chemist and eventually quit the field to pursue devote himself to literature, history, philosophy and religion. He taught Urdu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984). In 1990, he moved back to Pakistan where he first worked at the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) and then at the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. At COMSTECH, he developed programs for scientific and technical cooperation among Muslim states and traveled extensively to many parts of the Muslim world. He was also the editor of Islamic Thought and Scientific Creativity—an international refereed journal in the field of Islam and science. When his efforts to fundamentally reform COMSTECH failed, he resigned and returned to Canada in 1999 and established the Center for Islam and Science the same year.