Nazeer Ahmed

Dr. Nazeer Ahmed is the CEO, of Delixus

Biography

Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, born in Tumkur City near Bangalore, Karnataka - India, is a senior scientist, historian, and a former legislator in India. He has held positions on noteworthy U.S. Department of Defense government projects including that of a Chief Engineer on the Hubble Space Telescope and on the Saturn, Apollo, and Moon Landing Projects as well as Solid Propellant Rocket studies. He has written two internationally acclaimed books on Islamic civilization entitled Islam in Global History as well as a spiritual book on Islam entitled What Makes Us Human. He is a specialist on educational reform for the World Organization for Resource Development and Education, Washington, DC. He is the author of Encyclopedia of Islamic History, http://historyofislam.com/

Current Positions

• CEO Delixus
• Executive Director, American Institute of Islamic History and Culture
• Director, WORDE
• Director, HMS IT, Tumkur, India ^[1]

Education

• MBA. (Management ), Rider University, Trenton, NJ. June 75
• Ph.D. (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

Achievements

• 12 United States Patents in space based lasers and engineering

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• Author, "Islam in Global History",^[13] Vols. 1 and 2. Xlibris Corporation.
• Author, "What Makes Us Human? A Spiritual Perspective"^[14]Xlibris Corporation
• Director, Encyclopedia of Islamic History^[15]
• 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
• Scores of articles in science and technology journals^[16]

Professional and Academic Experience

• Executive Director, American Institute of Islamic History and Culture (1999–Present)
• CEO, Delixus
• Consulting Dean, HMS Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India (1998–2000)
• 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

He was elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Karnataka state from his home town and Assembly Constituency of Tumkur in 1978. He resigned from the seat and also from India's active politics in 1980.

The burial ground gifted to community by Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, as seen in January 2010

He was an Elected Delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 42nd Congressional District in California in 1988. He also was a candidate for US Congress, 46 CA Congressional District in 1992.

In India, he has been supporting the poor and marginalised sections of the society, particularly of the Muslim community, to help them integrate into mainstream society and contribute to a better world. Since late 1990s this has largely happened through a scholarship fund that he has set up known as ‘Rank Nazeer Foundation’.

A view in January 2010 of Dr. Nazeer Ahmed in front of the unique Eidgah constructed by him

At a time when Muslims of Tumkur were experiencing hardship in burying their dead due to lack of space in the existing cemetery, he donated over 6 acres of land in the city in 2008, worth millions of Rupees. He has personally designed and constructed a unique Eidgah, a Muslim prayer structure, on this land. According to the inscription besides this Eidgah, which faces Mecca - the direction in which Muslims all around the world turn to pray each day, "This structure is unique in that it has built into it subtleties that go beyond the ordinary. First, the divine name “Allah” is built into the structure, read right to left as is its reflection, read left to right. The reflection suggests the world is illusory and is only a reflection of the heavens. Secondly, each of the smaller minarets is nineteen feet from the ground. The number nineteen is a mystical number in Islam that appears in the Qur'an. The intermediate sized minarets are nineteen feet from the base. So, altogether there are six minarets that are nineteen feet each. Six times nineteen is 114, which is the total number of surahs in the Qur'an, a Book that completes God's favours upon humankind. Straight lines drawn from the apex of the minarets intersect where the word "Huwa" is inscribed in a red circle. The subtended angle of 112 degrees is twice the natural flow angle of the earth into which we return. Huwa is the abstract divine pronoun for God, most exalted. The circle is a reminder of "two bows length or less" wrapped around that shrouded prophet Muhammed when stood in divine presence during Me'raj."

References

1. ^ http://www.hmsit.ac.in/link.php?action=save&linkid=29&name=management
2. ^ US Patent 4806027
3. ^ US Patent 4242897
4. ^ US Patent 4856172
5. ^ US Patent 4369083
6. ^ US Patent 4271790
7. ^ US Patent 4341580
8. ^ US Patent 4220029
9. ^ US Patent 4096721
10. ^ US Patent 4076335
11. ^ US Patent 4177658
12. ^ US Patent 4015765
13. ^ Amazon.com
14. ^ Amazon.com
15. ^ Main Page - EncyclopediaOfIslamicHistory
16. ^ U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, Cambridge, Mass. 1970, J. Basic Engg., March 1972

External links

• 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 Dr. Nazeer Ahmed as an ex-MLA
• The Hindu, Feb 25, 2008 Dr. Nazeer Ahmed sharing dais with Mr. M.A.A. Fatmi, Union Minister of State, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
• Dr. Nazeer Ahmed www.worde.org
• Muslim-leaders - Dr. Nazeer Ahmed
• The students need creative and analytical thinking - Dr. Nazeer Ahmed
• New Qur’an translation released - Arab News
• New Qur’an translation released - Karnataka Muslims
• Dr. Nazeer Ahmed - represented Sheikh Kabbani Fourth Meeting of the Board of World Religious Leaders
• Dignitaries - Salaam Centre

Islam in Global History References from Wikipedia Sources

• Syed Ahmed Khan
• Shajar al-Durr
• Razia, Sultana of Delhi
• Fiqh, the development of
• Imam Ja'afar as Sadiq

Persondata
Name	Ahmed, Nazeer
Alternative names	Rank Nazeer
Short description
Date of birth	Member of Legislative Assembly of Karnataka state
Place of birth	[Tumkur]], Karnataka, India
Date of death
Place of death