Professor Mohammad R. Salim

Mohammed Rashad completed his general education and took a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Fuad Al-Awal University. He pursued higher education in the U.K. and obtained his Ph.D. in the Islamic Doctrine at Cambridge University. He taught for many years at Ain Shams University in Cairo, then traveled to Saudi Arabia where he taught at King Saud University, then at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh.

Professor Mohammad Rashad Salim, a graduate of Cambridge University, was an accomplished Muslim writer and thinker. He authored or edited a number of keynote books on Islamic doctrine, including his illustrious, 11-volume edition of Ibn Taimiyyah’s (1) Dar’a Ta’arudh Al-Aqil Wa Al-Naql (Avoiding Clashes of Thought and Tradition), which remains one of the most influential texts on the Islamic doctrine. Most of his other editions were also focused on the thought and works of Ibn Taimiyya e.g., his editions of: The Path of the Prophet’s Sunnah (2) (8 volumes), Al-Safadiyya (2 volumes) and Righteousness (2 volumes).

Professor Mohammed Rashad was a recipient of the Egyptian State Prize for Islamic Philosophy in 1972 and the Order of Sciences, Literature and Arts in the same year.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.