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 (ICMI). During 1960s and 1970s he served for 17 years as an electrical engineer by training at the Bandung Institute of Technology. On May

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

Imaduddin was imprisoned for 14 months by the

Suharto Suharto (; ; 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, 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 song ...

he went to exile, got scholarship and studied industrial engineering in Iowa State University. After coming back to Indonesia at 1986 he moved to

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, 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 Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

he was permitted to organise ICMI under the patronage of the Indonesian vice-president, B. J. Habibie. 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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