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Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome Asmani

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Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome Asmani is an expert in Islamic law, administrator, and community mobilizer. He holds a Master’s Degree in Law and Shari’ah specializing in Muslim Personal Law from International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan; and a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Profession from the Kenya School of Law-Nairobi. He also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Shari’ah from International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan and a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the Punjab University – Lahore Pakistan.
Sheikh Lethome, consulted for Population Council (2006-2009) in the debate around Islam and harmful cultural practices and co-authored a tool kit for anti-FGM/C campaigners in the Horn of Africa entitled “Delinking FGM from Islam” (2008). As a lead consultant, he guided UNFPA Kenya into developing a Shariah compliant guide on Islam and child-spacing.

He is the chairman of both the Shariah Advisory Committee of KCB, and that of the County Pension Fund (CPF) on interest free banking and Shariah compliant financial transactions.

He consulted for USAID in developing a programme for youth in Nairobi and Mombasa to prevent radicalization.

Sheikh Lethome is a lawyer specializing in Muslim personal law matters and in this capacity handles many GBV cases in the Muslim community in Kenya. Uses the Mosques and religious function to address some of the underlying root causes of GBV in the community.

He previously worked as a Commissioner in both the People’s Commission (Ufungamano Initiative) and the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (CKRC) and was part of the team that drafted the Bill of Rights in the “Bomas draft”, the precursor to the 2010 Constitution.

He is a member of both the Jamia Mosque Committee and Supreme Council of Muslims and advices both institutions on legal and Islamic Religious matters.

Currently Sheikh Lethome is the Secretary General of Centre for Sustainable Conflict Resolution (CSCR) whose flagship project is known as BRAVE, and one of the leading Consultants on how religion can be used to address Violent Extremism, specifically training religious leaders, community P/CVE champions, youth and other stakeholders in this regard.

His main area of interest includes how to use religion to:

  • – Promote peaceful co-existence, (intra/interfaith, and intra/inter ethnic)
  • – Look at the rights of the Child
  • – Look and the dignity of the child in the digital world
  • – Islam and interfaith relations

He has severally been invited by AU and IGAD to present papers on preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) in various Countries in Africa.

  • – Secretary General of Centre for Sustainable Conflict Resolution (CSCR)
  • – Member – Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM) & Jamia Mosque Committee
  • – Legal Advisor – SUPKEM (Legal and Islamic Religious matters)