29/09/2022
Who is Sheikh Professor Yusuf Qaradawi?
1. Yusuf 'Abdullah al-Qaradawi
Born on 9 September 1926 and died on Monday, September 26, 2022 (age 96 years old).
2. An orphan at the age of two, when he lost his father.
3. He read and memorized the entire Qur'ān by the time he was nine years old.
4. Joined the Institute of Religious Studies at Tanta, and graduated after nine years of study.
5. Studied Islamic Theology at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
6. In 1952 - he had Alimiyya degree, College of Usūl ad-Din (Religious Fundamentals of Islam).
7. In 1958, he had his Post-Graduate Diploma in Arabic Language Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies in Arabic Language and Literature.
8. In 1960, he got his Master's degree.
9. In 1973, he got his Ph.D. degree, Department of Quranic Studies at the College of Usūl ad-Din.
11. In 1962, he was sent by Al-Azhar University to Qatar to head the Qatari Secondary Institute of Religious Studies.
12. He completed his PhD thesis titled Zakah and its effect on solving social problems in 1973 with First Merit and was awarded his PhD degree from Al-Azhar.
13. He is currently a professor in the aforementioned discipline until his death.
14. In 1977, he laid the foundation for the Faculty of Shari'ah and Islamic Studies in the University of Qatar.
15. and became the faculty's dean.
16. In the same year he founded the Centre of Seerah and Sunna Research.
17. He also served at the Institute of Imāms, Egypt under the Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments as supervisor before moving back to Doha as Dean of the Islamic Department at the Faculties of Shari'ah and Education in Qatar, where he continued until 1990.
18. His next appointment was in Algeria as Chairman of the Scientific Council of Islamic University and Higher Institutions in 1990–91.
19. He returned to Qatar once more as Director of the Seerah and Sunnah Center at Qatar University, a post he still occupies today.
20. Al-Qaradawī finished 3rd in a 2008 poll on who was the world's leading public intellectual. The poll, Top 100 Public Intellectuals, was of the readers of Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (United States).
21. In 1997, Al-Qaradawī helped found the European Council for Fatwa and Research, a council of important and influential Muslim scholars dedicated to researching and writing fatwas in support of Western Muslim minority communities based in Ireland, and he serves as its head.
22. He also serves as the chairman of International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS).
23. Al-Qaradawī is a principal shareholder and former Sharia adviser to Bank Al-Taqwa.
24. He helped to found Islamonline.net in 1997 and for which he serves as chief religious scholar. In just four years (2000–2003), around 306,691 materials have been published, 233,223 of which are in Arabic while 73,486 are in English.
25. He has three sons and four daughters, three of whom hold doctorates from British Universities. His daughter, Ilham Yousef Al-Qaradawī, is an internationally recognized nuclear scientist.His son, Abdurrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawī, is a poet and a political activist in Egypt.
*Awards*
26. The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Prize in Islamic Economics – 1991.
28. King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies – 1994.
29. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (Sultan of Brunei) Award for Islamic Jurisprudence – 1997.
30. Sultan Al Owais Award for Cultural & Scientific Achievements – 1998–1999.
31. Dubai International Holy Quran Award for Islamic Personality of the Year – 2000.
32. The State Acknowledgement Award for contributions in the field of Islamic Studies from the Government of Qatar – 2008.
33. Tokoh Ma'al Hijrah (Hijra of the Prophet) award by the Malaysian Government −2009.
34. The Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, part of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, instituted the "Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawī Scholarships" in 2009, awarding them to five students each year for post-graduate studies. It also named after him its newly established research centre, The Qaradawī Center for Islamic Moderation and Renewal.
35. The State Merit Prize for Islamic Studies was issued to Qaradawī by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage of Qatar on 3 November 2009.
36. He is a trustee of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
37. He has been named as the technical consultant for a multimillion-dollar English-language film about Mohammed, produced by Barrie Osborne.
*Books*
38. Al-Qaradawī has authored more than 120 books
39. Islam: Modern Fatwas on Issues of Women and the Family (Fatawa Mu'asira fi shu'ūni al-Mar'a wa al-Usrah) (Dar al-Shihab, Algeria, 1987).
40. Auspices of the Ultimate Victory of Islam, Doha (1996)
41. Towards a Sound Awakening
42. The lawful and the prohibited in Islam (al-Halal wal-haram fil Islam).
43. The desired Muslim generation (Al-Jīl Al-Munshūd) . Riyadh: International Islamic Publishing House.
44. Diversion and Arts In Islam (in progress)
Non muslims in the Islamic society.
45. Priorities of the Islamic movement in the coming phase.
46. Fiqh az-zakat : a comparative study : the rules, regulations and philosophy of Zakat in the light of the Qurʼān and Sunnah.
47. Contemporary fatawa: current issues in Islamic fiqh.
48. Time in the life of a Muslim.
49. Sincerity: The Essential Quality.
50. Approaching the Sunnah: comprehension & controversy.
51. Islamic awakening between rejection and extremism.
52. Islam: an introduction.
53. Economic security in Islam.
54. Amongst his dozens of works in Arabic, we cite:
55. Ghayr al-Muslimīn fī al-mujtanaʻ al-Islāmi.
56. Ayna al-khalal.
57. Awāmil al-saʻah wa-al-murūnah fī al-sharīʻah al-Islāmīyah.
58. al-ʻIbādah fī al-Islām. Cairo: Maktabat Wahbah.
59. al-Nās wa-al-ḥaqq. Cairo: Maktabat Wahbah.
60. Bayʻ al-murābaḥah lil-āmir bi-al-shirāʼ ka-mā tujrīhi al-maṣārif al-Islāmīyah : dirāsah fī ḍawʼ al-nuṣūṣ wa-al-qawāʻid al-sharʻīyah.
61. al-Īmān wa-al-ḥayāh. Cairo: Maktabat Wahbah.
62. Malāmiḥ al-mujtamaʻ al-Muslim alladhī nanshuduh.
63. Dawr al-qiyam wa-al-akhlāq fī al-iqtiṣād al-Islāmi. Cairo: Maktabat Wahbah.
64. Fī fiqh al-awlawīyāt : dirāsah jadīdah fī ḍawʼ al-Qurʼān wa-al-sunnah.
65. al-Islām wa-al-fann. Cairo: Maktabat Wahba.
66. al-Aqallīyāt ad-dīnīya wa-l-ḥall al-islāmi.
67. al-Mubashshirāt bi-intiṣār al-Islām.
68. Min fiqh al-dawlah fī al-Islām : makānatuhā-- maʻālimuhā-- ṭabīʻatuhā, mawqifuhā min al-dīmuqrāṭīyah wa-al-taʻaddudīyah wa-al-marʼah wa-ghayr al-Muslimīn.
69. al-Ṣaḥwah al-Islāmīyah wa-humūm al-waṭan al-ʻArabi. Cairo: Dār al-Shurūq.
70. Thaqāfatunā bayna al-infitāḥ wa-al-inghilāq. Cairo: Dār al-Shurūq.
71. al-Īmān bi-al-qadar. Beirut: Muʼassasah al-Risālah Nāshirūn.
72. Fī fiqh al-aqallīyāt al-Muslimah : ḥayāt al-Muslimīn wasaṭ al-mujtamaʻāt al-ukhra.
73. Riʻāyat al-bīʼah fī sharīʻat al-Islām.
74. al-Sunnah wa-al-bidʻah.
75. Fī wadāʻ al-aʻlām. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr.
76. al-Islām alladhī nadʻū ilayh.
77. al-Ṣaḥwah al-Islāmīyah
78. Fiqh al-Jihād
79. Fiqh az-Zakāh
80. Islam: The Future Civilization.
81. His most famous work is The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam. Professor Mustafa al-Zarqa declared that owning a copy of it was "the duty of every Muslim family".
May Allāh forgive him of his shortcomings, accept his return to HIM & admit him into HIS Paradise.
Copied from Shehu Jimoh. Short CV
