Habib Ali al-Jifri

Habib Ali al-Jifri

Habib Ali Zain al-Abidin al-Jifri ( Arabic علي الجفري, DMG ʿAlī al-Ǧifrī ; * April 20, 1971 in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia ) is the founder and director of the Tabah Foundation (2005), United Arab Emirates . He is a supporter of Ba'Alawi - Sufi Order , which the tradition of the Shafi'i legal school of Sunni follows.

Al-Jifri received his education in Hadramaut and studied in Sanaa and Tarim in Yemen . In 2002 he became deputy dean of Dar al-Mustapha in Tarim.

Since 2007 he has been a member of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Amman , Jordan . He was one of the 138 Muslim signatories of the open letter a common word between us and you ( english A Common Word Between Us & You ) to "Christian leader churches everywhere."

In 2009, al-Jifri was ranked 37th among the 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.

Sheikh Habib Ali al-Jifri is on the advisory board of the European Academy for Islamic Culture and Science in Brussels.

literature

• Safaa M. Afifi El-Sheikh: Western Churches in the Image of Contemporary Egyptian and Arab Religious Scholars: A Contribution to the Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI . (Doctorate from HU zu Berlin) Dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2012 ( Online ; PDF; 1.8 MB) (see p. 139 ff .: The Dialogue in Thought by Sheikh Habib Ali Zain al-Abidin al- Jifri)

Web links

• Regional Bishop Dr. Johannes Friedrich: Learning together to discover love. Laudation for the awarding of the Eugen Biser Prize to Sheikh al-Habib Ali Zain al-Abidin al-Jifri on November 22, 2008 (PDF file; 27 kB)
• alhabibali.com: Biography
• halwaislami.wordpress.com
• themuslim500.com: Habib Ali Zain Al Abideen Al Jifri
• Sheikh Habib Ali Al-Jifri

Individual evidence

1. ↑ acommonword.com: A common word between us and you (summarized short form) October 13, 2007 (PDF; 186 kB)
2. ↑ 500 most influential Muslims (PDF file; 4.0 MB)
3. ↑ Eugen Biser and Richard Heinzmann: Answer by the Eugen Biser Foundation to the open letter "A Common Word between Us and You": Eugen Biser Prize 2008. 2009, p. 127 ( partial online view )