Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Sharqawi
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Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Sharqawi (full name Ahmad Muhammad al-Sharqawi Salim) is a contemporary Egyptian scholar of Quranic exegesis and an associate professor in the Department of Tafsir and Quranic Sciences at Al-Azhar University .
Education and Academic Career
Al-Sharqawi completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Usul al-Din and Da'wah at Al-Azhar University in the Department of Tafsir and Hadith, graduating in 1990 with first-class honors and ranking first in his class . He pursued postgraduate studies at the same institution, again ranking first, and was appointed as a teaching assistant (mu‘id) in the Department of Tafsir and Quranic Sciences at the Faculty of Usul al-Din and Da'wah in Zagazig on April 9, 1992 .
He earned his master's degree in Usul al-Din from Al-Azhar University in 1994 with a thesis examining the exegetical methodology of Sa'id Hawwa (Manhaj al-Shaykh Sa'id Hawwa fi al-Tafsir) . In 1998, he received his doctorate (al-‘Alamiyyah) with first-class honors from the Faculty of Usul al-Din at Al-Azhar University for his comparative thematic study titled al-Mar'ah fi al-Qasas al-Qur'ani ("Women in Quranic Stories") . He was promoted to the rank of associate professor on May 7, 2003, and served on the faculty at Al-Azhar University as well as the College of Education for Girls in Unaizah, located in the Al-Qassim region of Saudi Arabia .
Scholarly Focus
Al-Sharqawi's research centers on Quranic sciences and exegetical methodology. In his academic monograph Mawqif al-Shawkani fi Tafsirihi min al-Munasabat ("The Stance of al-Shawkani in His Exegesis Regarding Textual Coherence"), he critically assessed Muhammad ibn Ali al-Shawkani's approach to the science of inter-verse and inter-surah relations (ilm al-munasabat) in his exegesis Fath al-Qadir . Al-Sharqawi argued that although al-Shawkani explicitly dismissed the pursuit of structural coherence as artificial and ungrounded, he nonetheless frequently incorporated various modes of contextual connection throughout his commentary .
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Completed in Shawwal 1423 AH (2002 CE), Mawqif al-Shawkani fi Tafsirihi min al-Munasabat is an academic study in Quranic sciences that examines and critically evaluates the theoretical opposition to, and practical application of, the science of textual coherence (ilm al-munasabat) by Muhammad ibn Ali al-Shawkani in his exegesis, Fath al-Qadir.