Taha Jabir Alalwani
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Taha Jabir Alalwani, Ph.D., is President of Cordoba University. He also holds the Imam Al-Shafi'i Chair in Islamic Legal Theory at The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences at Corboda University and is an internationally known scholar in his field. Dr. Alalwani is considered an expert in the fields of Islamic legal theory, jurisprudence (fiqh), and usul al-fiqh.
Dr. Alalwani was previously the chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America.
[edit] Biography
Born in 1935 in Iraq, Alalwani attended and graduated from the College of Shari’ah and Law at al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt in 1959. He continued at the college and earned a Master’s Degree in 1968 and a doctorate in Usul al-fiqh in 1973. Dr. Alalwani then taught for 10 years at the Imam Muhammad ibn Sa’ood University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Alalwani emigrated to the United States in 1983.
