Professor Hassan Mahmoud Al-Shafei

Hassan Al-Shafei obtained a B.A. in Arabic Language and Islamic Sciences from the Faculty of Dar Al Ulum, Cairo University, 1963, and a high degree from the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion, Al-Azhar University, in faith and philosophy, and a master’s degree in Islamic philosophy from the Faculty of Dar Al Uloom, University of Cairo, 1969, and a doctorate in Islamic philosophy from the University of London in 1977. He worked at Dar Al-Ulum University in Cairo from 1963, when he was appointed as a head of the Department of Islamic Philosophy in 1994, then a full-time professor of the same department in 1996. He worked in a number of universities outside Egypt, including: the Islamic University of Omdurman in 1979, Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh 1981, and was seconded to the International Islamic University in Islamabad – Pakistan in 1981, then was appointed as its president in 1998; he also worked as the president of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo during the period (2012-2020). He is also a former member of several councils, bodies and centers, including: the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Cairo, the Center for Islamic Studies at Cairo University, and the “100” Committee entrusted with writing the new Egyptian constitution. The Council of Senior Scholars in Al-Azhar Al-Sharif. He authored, edited, and translated many books and published a number of other scientific research.

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