Obituary: Abdalhamid Evans, a guiding light and thought leader in the global Islamic Economy

On June 3, the world lost a visionary, a pioneer, who shared the dream of a harmonized global halal lifestyle and worked for it to take root across a unified Islamic Economy. Abdalhamid Evans was a guiding light and thought leader in the Islamic Economy who spoke gently and wrote from a clear perspective in a most gifted manner.

Born David Evans in New York to British parents, he was primarily raised in the United Kingdom where he was educated and discovered Islam in 1978 when visiting a friend in London who had converted to the religion with other reverts in the early 1970s after their meeting with a noble Moroccan sheikh in Meknes.

He was given the name Abdalhamid, and returned to Ireland where he was living at the time, and began telling the people what he knew about the Deen. Even though it was very new to him, it established very quickly in his heart because it answered all the questions about fitra that had arisen within him while living in a remote part of southern Ireland. Many of these people also converted to Islam and they went to settle in Norwich in England where there was already an established community of reverts with their own mosque in the city center.