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Faruq Hammadah

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Faruq Hammadah is a contemporary scholar of Islamic sciences, specialized in hadith and prophetic biography (al-sira al-nabawiyya), who served as a professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat and as a religious advisor in the United Arab Emirates.

Education

Hammadah earned a bachelor's degree in Islamic law (Sharia) from Damascus University in 1971. He continued his higher education in Morocco, completing graduate certificates in Quranic sciences in 1973 and in hadith sciences in 1974. In 1975, he obtained a master's diploma in Islamic sciences from Dar al-Hadith al-Hasaniyya in Rabat with distinction (hasan), followed by a state doctorate in Islamic sciences from the same institution in 1978 with high distinction (hasan jiddan) and a recommendation to publish his dissertation. He also earned a bachelor's degree in law from Mohammed V University in Rabat in 1977, and received traditional scholarly certifications (ijazat) from prominent scholars.

Academic and Advisory Career

Hammadah served as professor of hadith and its sciences at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat. At the university, he headed postgraduate degree programs, including research methodologies in Islamic sciences from 1997 to 2001, legal reasoning (ijtihad) and contemporary developments from 2001 to 2005, and contemporary legal reasoning and human issues from 2005 to 2009. He also served as religious advisor at the Crown Prince Court of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Scholarly Contributions

Hammadah's scholarly research focuses on the historiographical evaluation of the prophetic biography, hadith criticism, and legal methodology. His studies include Masadir al-Sira al-Nabawiyya wa-Taqwimuha ("Sources of the Prophetic Biography and Their Evaluation") and Al-Manhaj al-Islami fi al-Jarh wa-l-Ta'dil ("The Islamic Methodology of Hadith Transmitter Criticism"). He also investigated early biographers and their methods, producing treatises such as Aalam al-Sira al-Nabawiyya fi al-Qarn al-Thani lil-Hijra ("Scholars of the Prophetic Biography in the Second Century AH").

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