Dr. Ghalib bin Ali Awaji
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Dr. Ghalib bin Ali Awaji is a contemporary Saudi scholar and academic who served as a faculty member at the Islamic University of Madinah . He specializes in Islamic creed, heresiography, and contemporary intellectual currents .
Academic Career and Research
Awaji served as a professor on the faculty of the Islamic University of Madinah, contributing to research on theology and comparative sects . His scholarship primarily focuses on the study of Islamic theological sects, their historical evolution, and modern ideological movements from a classical Sunni doctrinal standpoint .
Among his most prominent contributions is Firaq Muasira Tantasib ila al-Islam wa Bayan Mawqif al-Islam Minha (Contemporary Sects Claiming Affiliation with Islam and Clarifying Islam's Stance Toward Them), an extensive study examining various Islamic sects, their core doctrines, and the scholarly responses to their divergences . He also authored al-Madhahib al-Fikriya al-Muasira wa-Dawruha fi al-Mujtamaat wa-Mawqif al-Muslim Minha (Contemporary Intellectual Currents, Their Role in Societies, and the Muslim's Stance Toward Them), which analyzes modern Western ideologies and secular thought , as well as al-Khawarij: Tarikhuhum wa-Ara'uhum al-I'tiqadiyya wa-Mawqif al-Islam Minha (The Kharijites: Their History, Doctrinal Views, and Islam's Stance Toward Them), dedicated to the history and beliefs of the Kharijites .
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List of Works
al-Madhahib al-Fikriya al-Muasira wa-Dawruha fi al-Mujtamaat wa-Mawqif al-Muslim Minha (Contemporary Intellectual Currents, Their Role in Societies, and the Muslim's Stance Toward Them) is a two-volume Islamic treatise on modern ideologies. The work provides a critical analysis of modern Western and secular ideological doctrines, examining their historical origins in the West, their penetration into Islamic societies, and an orthodox Islamic refutation of their tenets.
Firaq Muasira Tantasib ila al-Islam wa Bayan Mawqif al-Islam Minha (Contemporary Sects Claiming Affiliation to Islam and the Clarification of Islam's Stance Toward Them) is an encyclopedic study of Islamic sects and theological groups. Serving as an introductory reference, it compiles historical and doctrinal material from classical Sunni literature, analyzes divergent theological doctrines, and refutes them according to the Quran, the Sunnah, and the creed of the Salaf.