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Hisham Kabbani (28 January 1945 – 4 December 2024) was a Lebanese-American Sunni Islam Sufi Muslim scholar belonging to the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi order. Kabbani has counseled and advised Muslim leaders to build community resilience against violent extremism. In 2012, the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre named him on The 500 Most Influential Muslims.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani was married to Hajjah Naziha Adil, Hajjah Naziha was the eldest child of Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil (died 2014), and Hajjah Amina bint Ayesha (died 2004), a Shaykha and Islamic scholar who wrote extensively on lives of the , whose family escaped religious persecution in Tatarstan, Russia.
Kabbani died in December 2024, at the age of 79.
Kabbani was also a member of the Elijah Interfaith Institute Board of World Religious Leaders. Shaykh Hisham Kabbani has held meetings with numerous world leaders and has been a key speaker at various conferences, such as the World Economic Forum.
Shaykh Kabbani also wrote a fatwa on the principles of jihad, which was translated into Arabic and distributed by the US military in Iraq.
In his remarks at the State Department that year, Shaykh Kabbani had claimed that 80 percent of the Muslim American population have been introduced to extremist ideology. "Islamic Extremism: A Viable Threat to U.S. National Security", January 7, 1999 Shaykh Kabbani claimed the figure was based on his interviews with religious clerics, educators, community members and young Muslims in 114 mosques in the US over an eight-year period (1991–1999). Although the "80%" figure has been widely cited by public officials, and has been repeated by several other reports, a fact check by the Washington Post concluded the statistic has not been confirmed by a quantitative, peer-reviewed study or any other type of evidence.
In his 1999 State Department speech, Shaykh Kabbani claimed that while the majority of Muslim Americans have been exposed to violent extremist ideologies, "not all of them agree with it." Later in the question and answer session he reiterated that the majority of the Muslim community which is "peace loving and tolerant" does not support extremism. In a 2000 interview with the Middle East Quarterly, he clarified his position that "the problem of extremism is not confined to the Muslim community... Extremism is an unwillingness to accept any viewpoint but one's own... Ideological extremism can result in an act of violence when an individual pursues his ideas to such an extreme that he thinks only his ideas are correct and must therefore be enforced on everyone else."
In 2001 and 2002 Shaykh Kabbani was recognized as one of the few Muslim scholars at that time to have warned of the threat of violent extremism.
In the April 2016 issue of Dabiq Magazine, Salafism-Wahhabism terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declared him a Murtad (apostate or blasphemer).
| +Works published by Hisham Kabbani !Title !Description | |
| Remembrance of God Liturgy of the Sufi Naqshbandi Masters | (1994) |
| The Naqshbandi Sufi Way | (1995) |
| Angels Unveiled | (1996) |
| Fifty Days: the Divine Disclosures During a Holy Sufi Seclusion | (2010) |
| The Prohibition of Domestic Violence | (2011) |
| Sufi Science of Self Realization | (2005) |
| Encyclopedia of Islamic Doctrine and Beliefs | (1998) |
| Call on Me: Powerful Supplications for Healing, Protection & Fulfillment of Needs | (2003) |
| The Fiqh of Islam: A Contemporary Explanation of Principles of Worship, 2 volumes | (2014) |
| Al-Muslihun: The Peacemakers As Taught In Classical Islam | (2014) |
| Healing Verses of Holy Quran & Hadith | (2013) |
| Principles of Islamic Spirituality: Contemporary Sufism & Traditional Islamic Healing | (2013) |
| The Benefits of Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Raheem & Surat Al-Fatihah | (2013) |
| The Importance of Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu 'alaihi Wa Salam in Our Daily Life, 2 volumes | (2013) |
| The Hierarchy of Saints | (2013) |
| The Heavenly Power of Divine Obedience and Gratitude | (2013) |
| The Dome of Provisions, 2 volumes | (2013) |
| Jihad: Principles of Leadership in War and Peace | (2010) |
| Fifty Days: the Divine Disclosures During a Holy Sufi Seclusion | (2010) |
| Fayd al-Salam (Arabic) | (2010) |
| Angels Unveiled, A Sufi Perspective | (1995) |
| At the Feet of My Master | (2009) |
| The Nine-Fold Ascent | (2009) |
| Who Are the Guides | (2009) |
| Banquet for the Soul | (2008) |
| Symphony of Remembrance | (2007) |
| Illuminations: Compiled Lectures on Shariah and Tasawwuf | (2007) |
| Universe Rising | (2007) |
| Pearls and Coral, 2 volumes | (2007) |
| A Spiritual Commentary on the Chapter of Sincerity | (2006) |
| Keys to the Divine Kingdom | (2005) |
| In the Shadow of Saints | (2005) |
| The Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition Guidebook of Daily Practices and Devotions | (2004) |
| The Approach of Armageddon? an Islamic Perspective | (2003) |
| Angeles Revelados: Una Perspectiva Sufi (Spanish) | (2016) |
| Les Anges Révélés (French) | (2016) |
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