Dr. Nazeer Ahmed
| Dr. Nazeer Ahmed | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 September 1939 Tumkur, Karnataka |
| 🏡 Residence | California, US and Bangalore, India |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🌐 Website | [http://www.historyofislam.com |
Dr. Nazeer Ahmed is a scientist, inventor, historian, legislator and philanthropist.
Biography[edit]
Nazeer Ahmed was born in Tumkur in the princely state of Mysore, India in 1939 into a farming family. His father Abdul Azeem was a Sufi spiritual scholar of the Qadariya Order. He achieved the first rank to the state in the public examination of 1952 and won the Maharaja of Mysore gold medal. Because of the consistency with which he maintained his rank status in state level and interstate examinations, he is known in Karnataka as "Rank Nazeer".
In 1961 he proceeded to the California Institute of Technology as Institute Scholar and as a Tata Scholar. He obtained his MS and AeE degrees from Caltech. In 1964–65 he worked in Huntsville, Alabama on the Saturn, Apollo and Lunar Land Rover Projects at the Marshall Space Flight Center. In 1967 he obtained a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University. He studied management under Peter Drucker at New York University and obtained an MBA from Rider University, New Jersey. In 1977, he returned briefly to India and was elected a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the 57th constituency.
Dr. Nazeer Ahmed worked as project manager on the Hubble Space Telescope. He designed, assembled, tested and delivered diffraction-limited performance in its secondary mirror assembly. Between 1984 and 1997 he was program manager on several strategic and tactical programs. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed holds twelve US patents in advanced composites and space-based lasers. He was a chairman of the AIRAPT conference in high pressure physics in Denver, Colorado in 1977. He has published a large number[vague] of papers in scientific journals including Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of Basic Engineering, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and other publications.
Dr. Nazeer Ahmed has written extensively on Islamic history and culture (www.historyofislam.com). His two-volume study Islam in Global History was published in the United States and translated into Urdu. He is the author of an Encyclopedia of Islamic History (History of Islam) and a spiritual treatise "What Makes Us Human?". As of 2012[update] Dr. Nazeer Ahmed is the director of the American Institute of Islamic History and Culture in California and a senior advisor to the World Organization for Resource Development and Education in Washington, DC and to HMS Institute of Technology, India. He also serves on the Steering Committee of Elijah Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.
Dr. Nazeer Ahmed translated the Qur'an into American English; the translation was released by Maulana Rashdi of Jami Masjid Bangalore.
Dr. Nazeer Ahmed was elected a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 42nd Congressional District in California in 1988. He was a candidate for US Congress, 46 CA Congressional District in 1992.
In India he set up a scholarship fund in the late 1990s called Rank Nazeer Foundation to support poor students.
In 2013 Dr. Ahmed was appointed a member of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission whose mandate is to transform Karnataka into a knowledge based state be it in agriculture, science, technology, arts, sports or traditional knowledge.
File:Dr.Ahmed with world religious leaders in Amritsar November 2007.jpg
Positions[edit]
As of 2012[update]
- Chief Mentor RankStudent.com
- Chairman Delixus
- Executive Director, American Institute of Islamic History and Culture
- Senior Adviser, World Organization for Resource Development and Education, Washington, DC
- Member, Karnataka Knowledge Commission
Education[edit]
- M.B.A. (Management), Rider University, Trenton, NJ. June 75
- PhD (Applied Mechanics), Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. June 67
- Ae.E. (Aeronautics), Caltech, Pasadena, CA, June 64
- M.S. (Aeronautics), Caltech, Pasadena, CA, June 62
- BS (Engineering), University of Mysore (Summa Cum Laude), India, June 61
- PE, State of California
Works[edit]
- 12 United States Patents in space based lasers and engineering
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- Author, "Islam in Global History",[12] Vols. 1 and 2. Xlibris Corporation.
- "What Makes Us Human? A Spiritual Perspective"[13]Xlibris Corporation
- "Islam in Global History", Vols. 1 and 2, Suhail Academy
Professional and academic experience[edit]
- Program Manager, SDI Programs for the US Department of Defense
- Chief Scientist, Hubble Space Telescope
- Structures work on the Saturn, Apollo rockets and Lunar Land Rover.
- Institute Scholar, California Institute of Technology
- Executive Director, American Institute of Islamic History and Culture (1999–present)
- Chairman, Delixus
- Director, Systems Development, OEA Aerospace, Fairfield, CA. (1997–98)
- Senior Vice-President, Compa Industries, Albuquerque, NM. (1994–97)
- Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (1995–96)
- Program Manager, Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA, (1986–94)
- Department Manager, Electro-optical Systems, Hughes Aircraft Co., CA, (1984–86)
- Project Manager, Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA. (1982–84)
- Senior Staff, Perkin Elmer Corporation, Danbury, CT, (1979–82)
- Senior Engineer, Lucent Technologies (formerly Western Electric), (1967–77)
- Institute Scholar, Caltech, Pasadena, CA (1961–64)
Contribution to community[edit]
The unique Eidgah combines traditional Indian designs with subtle mathematics from space sciences.
Dr. Ahmed designed and built a unique Eidgah (outdoor prayer complex) at Tumkur, located seventy kms from Bangalore, India. According to the inscription beside the Eidgah, this structure has the divine name "Allah" built into the structure and seen as a reflection, suggesting that the world is illusory and only a reflection of the heavens. Each of the smaller minarets is nineteen feet from the ground and the intermediate sized minarets are nineteen feet from the base. So, altogether there are six minarets that are nineteen feet each. The number nineteen is a mystical number in Islam; six times nineteen is 114, which is the total number of surahs in the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam. Straight lines drawn from the apex of the minarets intersect where the word "Hu" is inscribed in a red circle. The subtended angle of 112 degrees is twice the natural flow angle of the earth. This flow angle is a solution to a Legendre polynomial of the second order which was presented in a paper by Ahmed at the fourth National Congress of Applied Mechanics at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. in 1972. Huwa is the abstract divine pronoun for God, most exalted. The circle is a reminder of "two bows length or less" wrapped around Muhammed when he is said to have stood in the divine presence during Me'raj. The entire structure is enclosed in a "golden rectangle" such that the ratio of the width of the base to the height of the two large minarets is approximately 1.62. Ahmed also built mosques (1995) and a school in Tumkur, India in co-operation with the Peace Corps of the United States (1967).
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Islam in the World Resources : Reporter’s Rolodex NewsWatch – Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism – San Francisco State University
- The Hindu, Oct 09, 2004 Reference in mainstream media to Nazeer Ahmed as an ex-MLA
- The Hindu, Feb 25, 2008 Nazeer Ahmed sharing dais with M.A.A. Fatmi, Union Minister of State, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
- Nazeer Ahmed www.worde.org
- Muslim-leaders – Nazeer Ahmed
- The students need creative and analytical thinking – Nazeer Ahmed Deccan Herald
- New Qur’an translation released – Arab News
- New Qur’an translation released – Karnataka Muslims
- Nazeer Ahmed – represented Sheikh Kabbani Fourth Meeting of the Board of World Religious Leaders, Amritsar, India and Haifa, Israel
- Dignitaries – Salaam Centre
- Dr. Nazeer Ahmed on Humility and Islam, Elijah Clip 9 on YouTube
- Faith, history and science in a secular paradigm
- Founder of RankStudent
- Islamic Voice – Rank Nazeer Ahmed
- Rank Nazeer Ahmed visit to Bhatkal Anjuman College
- Space Scientist’s Tryst with Qur’ān and Islamic History
- Dr. Rank Nazeer & his wife visited Salaam Centre
- MS Logs – Biography on Rank Nazeer Ahmed
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