Lifetime Achievement Award, Islamic Finance Forum of South Asia (IFFSA) 2014: Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Prize in Islamic Banking and Finance 2011: King Abdullah II Award 2011: Lifetime Achievement Award, Islamic Business & Finance Magazine 2010: Wisam al-Istiqlal (Order of Independence), 1st class, conferred by the King of Jordan 2004: Emir Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktum Award Academia He currently teaches Sahih al-Bukhari, fiqh, and Islamic economics at Darul Uloom Karachi and is known for his Islahi Khutbat. He was a key member of a team of scholars which helped declare Ahmadis non-Muslims by Pakistan's National Assembly during the era of former Pakistani president, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in the 1970s. During the presidency of General Zia ul Haq, he was instrumental in drafting laws pertaining to Hudood, Qisas meaning retaliation in kind or (eye for an eye, and Diyya (blood money). Personal views Usmani strongly opposes elements of explicit modernity, which he describes as engulfing "the whole world in the tornado of nudity and obscenity, and has provided an excuse for fornication, and more so it has led under thunder claps to the passage of a bill in the British House of Commons to legalize homosexuality. It is in the shadow of the same modernity that Western women are openly displaying banners on the streets demanding legalization of abortion" At a religious conference in 1984, he urged a more "dynamic attitude" towards the practice of ijtihad, arguing there is no shortage of fine minds capable of interpreting the sharia, but warning against the contamination of sharia by Western ideas such as the elimination of hudud penalties such as amputation and stoning. Positions held Positions held in the past Bibliography Usmani has authored 143 books including Tauzeeh Al-Qur'an, An Introduction to Islamic Finance, Contemporary Fataawa, The Authority of Sunnah, Uloomu-l-Qur'an. He has also written a supplement to Shabbir Ahmad Usmani's Fath al-Mulhim, entitled Takmilat Fath al-Mulhim. See also Contemporary Islamic philosophy References Bibliography External links Studio Recording HD Audio Quran Tafseer Urdu Lectures by Mufti Taqi Usmani Urdu Books - Mufti Taqi Usmani English Books - Mufti Taki Usmani Khutbaat e Usmani (Juma Lectures) of Mufti Taqi Usmani in Urdu Audio Quran Tafseer Lectures by Mufti Taqi Usmani Get Urdu Quran Translation (Audio & PDF Version) by Taqi Usmani Official website of Darul Uloom Karachi An Introduction to Islamic Finance by Mufti Taqi Usmani 1943 births Living people Pakistani Islamic religious