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In 1973, he came under the tutelage of Amin Ahsan Islahi (d. The meeting changed Ghamidi from a man of philosophy and literature to a man of religion. Knowing that Amin Ahsan Islahi was resident in Lahore during those days, he set out to meet him the very day he had first read his mention. In this work he found a mention of Amin Ahsan Islahi, the torchbearer of Farahi’s thought. ĭuring his excursions to the library he stumbled on the works of Hamiduddin Farahi, a scholar of Quran. He later graduated from Government College, Lahore, with a BA Honours in English Literature & Philosophy in 1972. Initially, he was more interested in Literature and Philosophy. After matriculating, he came to Lahore in 1967 where he is settled ever since. His first exposure to traditional Islamic studies was in the Sufi tradition.

His father wanted him to have both traditional and modern education, splitting his time between school and learning Arabic and Persian. His early education included a modern path (matriculating from Islamia High School, Pakpattan), as well as a traditional path ( Arabic and Persian languages, and the Qur’an with Nur Ahmad of Nang Pal). Ghamidi and his two elder sisters grew up in a Sufi household. His father, Muhammad Tufayl Junaydi, was a landowner, involved in medicine and a committed follower of tasawwuf until his death in 1986. His family village settlement was Dawud in Sialkot. Javed Ahmed Ghamidi was born on 7 April 1952  to a Kakazai family in a village called Jivan Shah (near Pakpattan) in District Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan.

Currently he is Principal Research Fellow and Chief Patron of Ghamidi Center of Islamic Learning in United States. He is running an intellectual movement similar to Wasatiyyah, on the popular electronic media of Pakistan. He was also a student of Islamic scholar and exegete, Amin Ahsan Islahi. He also taught Islamic studies at the Civil Services Academy for more than a decade from 1979 to 1991. He became a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology (responsible for giving legal advice on Islamic issues to the Pakistani Government and the country’s Parliament) on 28 January 2006, where he remained for a couple of years. He is also the founding President of Al-Mawrid Institute of Islamic Sciences and its sister organisation Danish Sara. Jāvēd Ahmed Ghāmidī ( Urdu: جاوید احمد غامدی‎) (born Ap) is a Pakistan Muslim theologian, Quran scholar, Islamic modernist, exegete and educationist.

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