Abdul Aziz al-Harbi
Abdul Aziz al-Harbi | |
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Personal | |
Born | 1965 Saudi Arabia |
Religion | Islam |
Nationality | Saudi Arabian |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Zahiri |
Creed | Athari |
Main interest(s) | Tafsir, Arabic language |
Alma mater | Islamic University of Madinah, Umm al-Qura University |
Occupation | Scholar |
Abdul Aziz bin Ali al-Harbi is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and associate professor at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca. He is one of the founders and the current president of the Arabic Language Academy in Mecca.[1]
Career
A native of Mecca, Harbi memorized the entirety of the Qur'an by the age of eleven.[2]
Harbi earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Exegesis of the Qur'an, known to Muslims as Tafsir, from Islamic University of Madinah in 1989. Nine years later, he completed a Master of Arts degree in the Muslim prophetic tradition, known as the Sunnah, at Umm al-Qura University, where he would eventually complete his Doctorate of Philosophy in Qur'anic exegesis in 2001.[2] He was promoted to the rank of associate professor at Umm al-Qura in 2006, and currently teaches exegesis. He is also a member of the university's academic board.[1]
Harbi also has an Ijazah authorization in all ten Qira'at, or variant methods of reciting the Qur'an, with a complete chain of narration going back to the original reciters of the Qur'an.[2] The majority of his published works, however, have been within the field of the Arabic language, especially in regard to Arabic rhetoric.[citation needed]
Citations
- 1965 births
- Living people
- People from Mecca
- People who memorized the Quran
- Jurisprudence academics
- Literary critics of Arabic
- 21st-century Muslim scholars of Islam
- Quranic exegesis scholars
- Saudi Arabian academics
- Saudi Arabian poets
- Saudi Arabian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
- Saudi Arabian writers
- Sunni fiqh scholars
- Sunni Muslim scholars
- Zahiris
- Umm al-Qura University alumni
- Umm al-Qura University faculty
- Islamic University of Madinah alumni