John Mohammed Butt
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John Mohammed Butt | |
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| Born | 1950 Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Other names | John Butt |
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| Era | 20th Century |
| Region | Muslim Scholar |
| School | Deobandi Sunni Islam |
| Notable ideas | Co-creator of New Home, New Life |
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John Mohammed Butt is an Islamic scholar and broadcaster, known as the first Westerner to graduate from Darul Uloom Deoband.[1]
Born in Trinidad in 1950, Butt spent his early life in Walton-on-Thames, England, and attended boarding school at Stonyhurst College before becoming a hippie and traveling to Pakistan.[2]
Conversion to Islam and life in Pakistan
Arriving in Swat in 1969, he was impressed by the tribal way of life and settled in the area, learning Pashto and Dari (he speaks a total of seven languages).[2]
He converted to Islam in 1970. He studied for eight years at Darul Uloom Deoband in India, graduating in 1984, the only Westerner to do so since its foundation in 1866. In Deoband, he studied under the scholars like Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri.[3] Although he continued to live mainly in Swat, he began spending part of each year as the Muslim chaplain at Cambridge University.[2] He left Swat in 2010 when his house was washed away by floods.[1]