Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood Urdu: سلطان بشیر الدین محمود; born 1940; alternative spellings: Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood; SI), is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and Islamic scholar educated in Lahore, West-Pakistan (now Pakistan) and Manchester, United Kingdom. A controversial figure, Bashiruddin Mahmood is widely popular in Pakistan's scientific and religious circles for his scientific interpretation and its relation to Quran. Mahmood, as an engineer, is an experienced atomic scientist and engineer who is known to have largely contributed in the formative years of commercial nuclear industry of Pakistan.
Mahmood earned national notoriety for his contacts and sympathies for Taliban which resulted in ending his engineering career at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). In 2001, Mahmood was apprehended by the FIA for his suspect connections to Taliban and its related splinter groups. Though he has been released and cleared since 2002, he has been out of the public eye and is currently living a quiet life in Islamabad. A nuclear engineer turned Islamic-scholar, Mahmood authored more than 15 books, all in English, on the relationship between Islam and science.
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