Feisal Abdul Rauf

Feisal Abdul Rauf (born October 23, 1948, Kuwait) is a Kuwaiti-born Egyptian American imam, author, and interfaith leader. He led an effort to build an Islamic community centre in Manhattan, New York, a few blocks from the World Trade Center site—one of the targets of the September 11 attacks by Islamic extremists in 2001—which sparked a national debate over religious tolerance and sensitivity. Abdul Rauf was born in Kuwait, the son of an Egyptian Islamic...