Khurshid Ahmad

Who is Khurshid Ahmad?

Khurshīd Ahmad, PhD is a Pakistani economist and Islamic activist who earned fame in his pioneering development of Islamic economic jurisprudence as an academic principle.

A senior and known ultraconservative figure, he has been long-standing member of the Jamaat-e-Islami, and successfully contested in 2002 general elections for a technocrat seat on a platform of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal —an alliance of far right parties. Previously, he had served as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission in a military government of President General Zia-ul-Haq, where he played an influential role in Islamization of the country's national economy in the 1970s. Ahmad is widely cited as the father of modern Islamic economics and Islamic capitalism, and is considered one of the influential thinkers in the field of Islamic economics.