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The Ethics of Disagreement in Islam

The Author

Dr. Taha Jabir al `Alwani was born in Iraq 1354/1935. He received his primary and secondary education in his native land and then graduated with an Honors Degree from the College of Shari`ah and Law at al Azhar University in Cairo in 1378/1959. From the same university, he was awarded his Master's degree in 1388/1968 and a doctorate in usool al fiqh in 1392/1973.

For ten years (from 1395/1975 to 1405/1985( Dr. al `Alwaanee was a professor of fiqh and usool al fiqh at Imaam Muhammad ibn Sa`ood University in Riyadh.

Dr. al`Alwaanee participated in the founding of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) in the USA in 1401/1981 and is now the Institute's president and a member of its Board of Trustees. Dr. al `Alwaanee is:

	A founder-member of the Council of the Muslim World League in Makkah.
	A member of the OIC Islamic Fiqh Academy in Jeddah since 1407/1987.
	The president of the Fiqh Council of North America since 1408/1988.

Among his works in Arabic are:

	His edition of al Mahsool fee `Ilm Usool al Fiqh (The Sum and Substance of Usool al Fiqh), by Imaam Fakhr al Deen al Raazee, in six volumes.
	Al Ijtihaad wa al Taqleed fee al Islaam (Legal Reasoning and Imitation in Islam).
	Adab al Ikhtilaaf fee al Islaam (Ethics of Disagreement in Islam).
	Islaah al Fikr al Islaamee (Reform of the Muslim Intellectual Discourse).

Other titles in English include:

	Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence (Usool al Fiqh al Islaamee).
	Outlines of a Cultural Strategy
	The Qur'an and the Sunnah: Time-Space Factor, with `Imaad al Deen khaleel
	Ijtihaad

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