Gibreel F. Haddad
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
- seekersguidance.org: Shaykh Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad (Biography)
- sunnah.org: How I came to Islam - Fouad Haddad (Lebanon) - January 28, 1997
- livingislam.org: Texts By Shaykh Gibril F. Haddad
- sunnipath.com: Shaykh Gibril Haddad
- issuu.com: 500 Most Influential Muslims 2009
- wikiislam.net: Gibril Haddad
References and footnotes
- ↑ seekersguidance.org: Shaykh Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad (Biography)
- ↑ issuu.com: 500 Most Influential Muslims 2009
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ seekersguidance.org: Shaykh Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad (Biography)
Gibril F. Haddad (alternative names of the lemma) |
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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 |
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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 |