Israr Ahmed was a prominent Pakistani Islamic theologian, philosopher, and one of the noted Islamic scholar followed particularly in South Asia as well as by the South Asian diaspora in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.br He was the founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami and an off-shoot activist of the rightist Jamaat-e-Islami.[3] Ahmed wrote and published 60 books on the different aspects of Islam and religion, nine of which were translated into English.[3] Prior to that, he was a television personality and daily hosted a religious show on Peace TV.