Prof. Dr. Sahib Mustaqim Bleher is a founder member of the Islamic Party of Britain and served as its general secretary and education spokesman as well as editor of the party magazine Common Sense. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics, an MBA in Educational Management and a Diploma in Translation

He was born in 1959 in Heidelberg, Germany, where during his school days he took an interest in newspaper journalism which became his later career. After converting to Islam in 1980 he changed his line of work to typesetting and reprographics, and later went into publishing. He has translated several titles of Islamic Literature from Arabic to German and continues to maintain a small publishing enterprise in the UK where he also served many years as a prison imam.

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher is a professor of applied linguistics and translation with Ecole Superieure International de Bruxelles and works as a commercial translator and interpreter through his own translation company (www.truetranslation.com ); he is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher began his political activities in Britain with a high-profile campaign to gain public recognition for Muslim schools in the UK. The experiences during this campaign together with feed-back from other activities led him and other Muslims resident in the UK to realise that Muslims had neglected the need for public advocacy of Islamic solutions and lacked the political clout necessary to achieve recognition and focus attention on Islamic answers to the various problems of modern Western society. This eventually resulted in the formation of the Islamic Party of Britain as the first proper political expression of Islam in the UK, aiming to use the political arena for the propagation of the Islamic model as well as encouraging Muslims to take up the the task of shaping the future of the society in which they live.

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher is well known for his dynamic lectures at universities and other events throughout the UK and abroad, as well as numerous pamphlets, dealing with topics on education, Islamic economics, politics, Muslim strategy and other issues of contemporary interest.

Amongst the hobbies of Sahib Mustaqim Bleher is aviation. He holds a CAA PPL, IMC and Night Rating, and an FAA Instrument Rating.

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher is also a 5th Kyu in Kyokoshinkai Karate, and is currently studying Tai Chi Chuan.  

He is married with five grown up children and numerous grandchildren.

Publications

Das Zeugnis der Bibel. Biblische Zitate weisen auf die Wahrheit des Qur'an. Weilerswist 1984.

Das ist die aufrechte Religion. Brief des Ibn Taymiya an den Koenig von Zypern. Aus dem Arabischen. Aachen 1984.

Das Leben Muhammads (M. H. Haikal) Aus dem Arabischen. Siegen 1987.

The Bible's Witness. Biblical quotations point to the truth of the Qur'an. London 1988.

Islam under the Cloud of Ignorance. The Fiqh of Freedom - a Law for Liberation. in: Common Sense 15, Milton Keynes 1995.

A Programme for Muslim Education in a Non-Muslim Society. in: Ghulam Sarwar et al, Issues in Islamic Education. London 1996.

The New Millennium Through Muslim Eyes

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