Mawlana Shaykh Hisham

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, an internationally renowned Naqshbandi spiritual Master, who spent his life spreading the Sufi teachings of love, peace, tolerance and respect, has passed away on 4^th December, 2024.

After over fifty years of training with the greatest Saints of his time, he was a Sufi Shaykh of the highest degree. Shaykh Hisham descended from the Prophet Muhammad from both his parents, through both the Hasani and Husayni sides. Raised in a prominent religious family in Lebanon, that included the Grand Mufti of Lebanon and the Head of the Association of Muslim Scholars, Shaykh Hisham became a pupil of Shaykh Abdullah ad-Daghestani as a boy and after Shaykh Abdullah’s death, became the pupil of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. Both of these great Shaykhs appointed Shaykh Hisham as their deputy, with the approval to guide students. Consequently he had a vast knowledge of both the religion of Islam and the path of the Sufi traveller.

He graduated with a BA in Chemistry from the American University in Beirut and then went to Louvain in Belgium to study medicine. He later received his Islamic Law degree in Damascus.

Shaykh Hisham was ordered by Mawlana Shaykh Nazim to move to the USA in 1991 to spread the Sufi teachings of the brotherhood and sisterhood of humanity. He established and was president of the Islamic Supreme Council of America and organised major international Islamic Conferences and lectured at some of the most important American Universities including Yale. He initiated and opened many Sufi Centres throughout the USA and Canada. His long term courageous efforts to eradicate terrorism were lauded by the US Congress, foreign policy makers, security advisors and religious leaders around the world.

He met many prominent world leaders and was often asked to advise them. Mawlana is the author of some landmark Sufi books that have helped to bring the details of the Naqshbandi Sufi way to the West.

May God be well pleased with him.