Gibreel F. Haddad

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Sheikh Gibril Fouad Haddad (born 1960 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a Sunni scholar and Sufi of the Naqshbandi tradition ( tariqa ), translator of classical Islamic texts and religious leader with a Lebanese - American background. He is considered to be one of the clearest voices of traditional Islam in the West.

Haddad was born into a Catholic family and was later educated in the United Kingdom and the United States. He converted to Islam while studying at Columbia University in New York City . Important teachers were Mawlānā Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani (1922-2014) a Cypriot Sufi teacher of the Naqshbandi tradition, and Shaykh Hisham Kabbani , co-founder and chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America .

He traveled to Damascus to continue his studies there. Haddad has translated and published more than 30 works, including Allah's Names and Attributes of Imam al-Bayhaqi and The Prophet's Night Journey and Ascension of Sheikh Muhammad ibn 'Allawi al Maliki .

He was one of the Islamic teachers at SunniPath (sunnipath.com), today: Qibla (qibla.com), an online Islamic academy, and is now at Living Islam (livingislam.org).

In 2009 he was listed on the list of 500 most influential Muslims by the Prince al-Walid-bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Jordan.

Currently (as of 7/2014) he is with his family in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam and is a visiting fellow at the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Center for Islamic Studies at the University of Brunei Darussalam .

Publications (selection)

  • Texts by Shaykh Gibril F. Haddad ( abc.se )

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ seekersguidance.org: Shaykh Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad (Biography)
  2. ↑ issuu.com: 500 Most Influential Muslims 2009
  3. ↑ Edited by Prof. John Esposito and Prof. İbrahim Kalın - The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World - The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center, 2009 (online at issuu.com )
  4. ↑ seekersguidance.org: Shaykh Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad (Biography)
Gibril F. Haddad (alternative names of the lemma)
Gabriel Fouad Haddad; Gibreel F. Haddad; Gibreel Fouad Haddad; Gibreel Haddad; GF Haddad; GF Haddad; Jibril Fouad Haddad; Jibril Fuad Haddad; Jibril Haddad; Fouad Haddad
personal data
SURNAME Haddad, Gibril F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haddad, Gibril F .; Haddad, Gibreel Fouad; Haddad, Gibril; Haddad, GF; Haddad, GF
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Personality of Islam from the Naqshbandi Sufi order
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut , Lebanon