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Peacebuilders

Muslim Peacebuilders

Profiles of Muslim nonviolent leaders and movements across history and around the world.

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  • Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

    Pashtun independence leader who raised the first nonviolent army in history — the Khudai Khidmatgar, one hundred thousand strong — from the warrior culture of the North-West Frontier.

  • Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba

    Founder of the Murīdiyya who met decades of colonial exile with prayer, teaching, and disciplined labor — Sufi resistance through nonviolence.

  • Abdulaziz Sachedina

    Scholar of Islamic pluralism whose work argues freedom of conscience from within the Qur’an itself.

  • Nurcholish Madjid

    Indonesian civil-society reformer who taught the world’s largest Muslim nation a theology of democratic patience.