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.
[edit] Thought and Ideology
Dr. Alwani wrote about the Islamization of Knowledge, the need for Ijtihad, and is the founder together with Dr. Qaradawi of fiqh al-aqalliyyat (Muslim minority jurisprudence) which stands for making fiqh easy in order to enable Islam to spread in the West.
[edit] External links
- Dr Alwani's welcome page at Cordoba University
- Shammai Fishman's Prism article on Alwani from December 2003
- Shammai Fishman's Prism article on Alwani's ijtihad September 2004
- Shammai Fishman's Hudson monograph on fiqh al-aqalliyyat from 2006
- Shammai Fishman's Omedia article on the political dimension of fiqh al-aqalliyyat November 2007
