Imaduddin Abdulrahim (

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

–

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

) was an Indonesian religious and political activist and the spiritual head of the

Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals The Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals (Indonesian: ''Ikatan Cendekiawan Muslim Indonesia'', ICMI) is a Muslim organization in Indonesia. Founded in 1990 by Indonesian Secretary of Research and Technology B. J. Habibie, the organisati ...

(ICMI). During 1960s and 1970s he served for 17 years as an electrical engineer by training at the

Bandung Institute of Technology The Bandung Institute of Technology ( id, Institut Teknologi Bandung, abbreviated as ITB) is a national research university located in Bandung, Indonesia. Since its establishment in 1920, ITB has been consistently recognized as Indonesia's premi ...

. On May 1978 Imaduddin was imprisoned for 14 months by the Suharto regime for his Islamic activism. Since

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...

he went to exile, got scholarship and studied industrial engineering in

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the ...

. After coming back to Indonesia at 1986 he moved to Jakarta, founded YAASIN (Yayasan Pembina Sari Insan) - the Foundation for the Development and Management of Human Resources and Islamic TV programme. In December

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

he was permitted to organise ICMI under the patronage of the Indonesian vice-president,

B. J. Habibie Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (; 25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian engineer and politician who was the third president of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999. Less than three months after his inauguration as the seventh vice preside ...

. His conversation (interview) with V.S. Naipaul (Nobel Laureate 2001 - Literature) is the opening "story" of the book titled "Beyond Belief"

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