Hammoud al-Ruhayli
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Hammoud al-Ruhayli, fully Hammoud ibn Ahmad ibn Faraj al-Ruhayli, is a contemporary Saudi scholar and academic specializing in Islamic propagation (da'wah) and contemporary intellectual currents . He served as a faculty member at the Islamic University of Madinah .
Academic Career and Activities
Al-Ruhayli pursued his higher education at the Islamic University of Madinah, completing his master's thesis on the Qur'anic methodology of calling the People of the Book to Islam in 1404 AH (1983 CE) . He earned his doctorate in 1406 AH (1986 CE) from the university's Department of Da'wah in the Faculty of Da'wah and Usul al-Din .
In addition to his academic studies, al-Ruhayli held administrative roles at the university, including serving as the registrar of graduate studies; in that capacity, he accompanied scholars such as Hammad al-Ansari and Ali Nasir Faqihi on an academic delegation to Damascus in 1399 AH (1979 CE) . He subsequently attained the rank of associate professor in the Faculty of Da'wah and Usul al-Din at the Islamic University of Madinah .
Scholarly Contributions and Focus
Al-Ruhayli's scholarship focuses primarily on the methodology of Islamic propagation, theological refutations, and contemporary ideological movements . His doctoral dissertation, Manhaj al-Qur'an al-Karim fi Da'wat al-Mushrikin ila al-Islam ("The Methodology of the Noble Qur'an in Inviting Polytheists to Islam"), examined the communicative and argumentative approaches employed in the Qur'an .
In the field of ethics and communal duty, his treatise Qawa'id Muhimma fi al-Amr bil-Ma'ruf wa al-Nahy 'an al-Munkar ("Important Principles in Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong") outlined foundational guidelines derived from scriptural sources . Al-Ruhayli has also contributed academic studies analyzing modern secular thought and ideological challenges facing Muslim societies .
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List of Works
This contemporary Islamic treatise examines the origins, development, and intellectual tenets of Western secularism, details the mechanisms through which it entered the Islamic world, and articulates the theological and legal rulings concerning secular thought in Islam.
This contemporary treatise addresses the ideological challenges facing Muslim societies and outlines mechanisms to safeguard Islamic identity against intellectual invasion.
This academic treatise in Islamic theology and proselytization investigates the methods, rational arguments, and rhetorical approaches employed by the Quran to invite polytheists to monotheism and refute idolatrous beliefs and practices.
This academic treatise on Islamic propagation evaluates contemporary approaches to Islamic activism against the theological and methodological framework of the Quran, the Sunnah, and the understanding of the righteous predecessors.
This contemporary treatise articulates the essential juristic and methodological maxims governing Islamic commanding of right and forbidding of wrong in light of the Quran and the Sunnah.