Resume
Dr. TAHA JABIR ALALWANI
45150 Russell
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Ashburn, VA
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571-203-9800
Fax: 571-203-9803
E-mail: talalwani@siss.edu
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE_______________________________________
1996-Present Founding
President, The Graduate School of Islamic and
Social Sciences, Leesburg, VA
1986-1996 President,
The International Institute of Islamic Thought,
1981-1986 Founding Member, The International Institute of Islamic Thought,
Herndon, VA
1976-1984 Professor
of Usul al-Fiqh (Principle of Jurisprudence), University
of Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1976-1979 Associate Professor of Usul al-Fiqh and Jurisprudence, University of Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1975
Legal
Advisor, Interior Ministry and Lecturer in the Institute of Officers of
Security, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1965-1966
Lecturer,
Islamic College, Baghdad, Iraq
1963-1969
Lecturer
of Islamic Studies, Military Academy, Baghdad, Iraq
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE___________________________________________
1996-Present Founding President, The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, Leesburg, VA
1996-Present Imam Shafi’i Professor, The
Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, Leesburg, VA
1998
Visiting
Professor, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
1994-1996
Visiting
Professor, The International Islamic University, Malaysia
1990-1992
Visiting
Professor, al-Amir Abdulgadir University, Algeria
1990
Member
of the Board of Trustees, Africa International University, Sudan
1984-1985
Visiting
Professor, University of Brunei, Brunei
MEMBERSHIPS_______________________________________________________
Member
of the Board of Advisors of Al-Hewar Center, Washington, D.C.
Member
of the Board of Advisors of the Center for Studying Islam and Democracy,
Washington, D.C.
Member
of the Shari’ah Council (Karamah Fiqh Council)
1968
M.A.
in Islamic Law, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
1959
B.A.
with Honors in Islamic Law, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
English
Persian
Works in Arabic:
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Missing
Dimensions in the Thought and Practice of the Contemporary Islamic Movements,
Herndon, VA: The International
Institute of Islamic Thought, 1997
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Hakimiyat al-Qur’an (Sovereignty of al-Qur’an),
Herndon, VA: The International
Institute of Islamic Thought, 1996
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Islamiyat al-Ma’rifah bain
al-Ams wa al-yaum (Islamization of Knowledge: Yesterday and Today), Herndon, VA: The International Institute of Islamic
Thought, 1996
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Combine
the two readings: The Revelation and
The Universe, Herndon, VA;
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Ibn Taymiyah wa Islamiyat
al-Ma’rifah (Ibn
Taymiyah and the Islamization of Knowledge), Herndon, VA: The International Institute of Islamic
Thought, 1994
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Usul al-Fiqh al-Islami (Source Methodology in
Islamic Jurisprudence) Herndon, VA: The
International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1994
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Adab al-‘Ikhtilaf fil Islam (Ethics of Disagreement)
Herndon, VA; The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1989
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Islah al-Fikr al-Islami bain
al-Qudarat Wal Aqabat (Reforming the Islamic Thought between Potentials and Obstacles)
Herndon, VA: The International
Institute of Islamic Thought, 1988
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Usul Al-Fiqh al-Islami (Source Methodology in
Islamic Jurisprudence) Herndon, VA: The
International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1988
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Editor
and Interpreter, Al-Mahsul Fi ‘Il Usul
al-Fiqh (The Sum and Substance of Usul al-Fiqh) by Imam Fakhr al-Din
al-Razi, 6 vols., Beruit, Lebanon:
Mu’assasat al-Risalah, 1980
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Al-Ijtihad wa al-Taqlid fi
al-Islam (Legal
Reasoning and Imitation in Islam), Cairo, Egypt: Dra al-Ansar, 1979
Works in English:
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Missing Dimensions in
Contemporary Islamic Movements, Herndon, VA:
The International Institute of Islamic Thought, Occasional Papers
Series, No. 9, 1996
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The Islamization of
Knowledge: Yesterday and Today, Herndon, VA: The International Institute of Islamic
Thought, Occasional Papers Series, No. 8, 1995
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Source Methodology in
Islamic Jurisprudence: Usul al-Fiqh
al-Islami, Herndon,
VA: The International Institute of
Islamic Thought, 1994
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Ijtihad, Herndon, VA: The International Institute of Islamic
Thought, Occasional Papers Series, No. 4, 1993
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The Qur’an and the
Sunnah: The Time-Space Factor, Herndon, VA: The International Institute of Islamic
Thought, Occasional Papers Series, No. 3, 1991
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Outlines of a Cultural
Strategy, Herndon,
VA: The International Institute of
Islamic Thought, Occasional Papers Series, No. 1, 1989
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The Ethics of Disagreement
in Islam,
Herndon, VA: The International
Institute of
Islamic Thought, 1989. Also published in Arabic.
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The Position of Islamic Law,
Herndon,
VA: The International Institute of
Islamic Thought
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The Muslim Who Lives in the
U.S. & Citizenship: Islam and
Non-Islam, Herndon,
VA: The International Institute of
Islamic Thought
Papers Published in Arabic:
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The Rights of the Accused in
Islam before Investigation
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The Jurisprudence of
Minorities
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Ta’lil al-Ahkam al-Shar’iyah
wa Ikhtilaf al-‘Ulama Fih wa Kaqiqat Mauqif al-hanabilah Minh (Reasoning the Islamic
Rules, the dispute among the Scholars about it, and the actual position of the
Hanbalis toward it). Paper was
published in Majalat al-Buhuth al-Islamiyah, Issue 10, Riyadh, 1984
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Al-Fiqh wa al-Hadharah (Jurisprudence and
Civilization). Paper was presented in
the Conference of the Islamic Civilization, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 1984
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Af-al rasul al-Allah wa
Mathahib al-‘Ulama’ fi al-Ihtijaj biha (The Acts of the Prophet and the Scholars’ opinions
about using them as a legal source).
Paper was presented at the 16th Gathering of the Islamic
Thought in Talmisan, Algeria, 1983
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Nadharat fi Tatawer ‘Ilm
Usul al-Fiqh (Views
in the development of the science of Usul al-Fiqh). Published in Adhwa’
al-Shari'’h, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Issue 13, 1982
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Ilm Usul al-Fiqh: Nash’atuhu, Tarikhuhu, wa Tadwinuhu (The Principle of
al-Fiqh: Its Emergence, History and
Documentation). Published in al-Muslim al-Mu’asir Magazine, Issue 14, Cairo,
Egypt, 1978
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Nadhratun ‘Amatun fi Ba’idh
Manahij al-Bahth al-Islamiyah (A General View in some of Islamic Research
Methodologies). Published in Adhwa’ al-Shari’ah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Issue 8,
1977
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(Introduction
to) Muqaddimah fi Islamiyat al-Ma’rifah, Bayrut: Dar al-Hadi, 2001.
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(How
to) Islah al-fikr al-Islami, Bayrut: Dar al-Hadi, 2002.
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(The
main cause) Maqasid al-Shari’ah, Bayrut: Dar al-Hadi, 2001.
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(Combined
the two) al-Jama’ bayna al-Qira’tayn, Cairo,
IIIT, 1987.
Papers Published in English:
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Fatwa Concerning the United
States Supreme Courtroom Frieze, Reprinted from
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The Role of Islamic Ijtihad
in the Regulation and Correction of Capital Markets. The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 14, no. 3 (Fall 1997)
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The Testimony of Women in
Islamic Law. The American Journal of Islamic and Social
Sciences, Vol. 13, no. 2 (Summer
1996)
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Authority: Divine or Qur’anic. The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 13, no. 4 (Winter 1996)
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Some Remarks on the Islamic
and the Secular Paradigms of Knowledge. The
American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 12, no. 4 (Winter 1995)
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Some Remarks on the Islamic
and the Secular Paradigms of Knowledge. The
American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 12, no. 4 (Winter 1995).
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Naturalization and the
Rights of Citizens. The American Journal of
Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 11,
no. 1 (Spring 1994)
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The Rights of the Accused in
Islam. The American Journal of Islamic and Social
Sciences, Vol. 11, no. 2 (Fall 1994)
and Vol. 11, no. 4 (Winter 1994), also published in Arabic.
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The Problem of Bias: An Epistemological Approach and Call for
Ijtihad” The American Journal of Islamic and Social
Sciences, Vol. 9, no 4 (Spring 1993)
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The Crisis of Thought and
Ijtihad. The American Journal of Islamic and Social
Sciences, Vol. 10, no. 2 (Summer
1993)
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Taqlid and Ijtihad: The Lexical and Technical Meanings of
Taqlid. The American Journal of Islamic and Social
Sciences, Vol. 9, no. 2 (Summer 1992)
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The Scope of Taqlid. The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 9, no. 3 (Fall 1992)
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Taqlid and Ijtihad: The Polemics of Ijtihad. The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 8, no. 1 (March 1991)
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The Crisis in Fiqh and the
Methdology of Ijtihad. The American Journal of
Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 8,
no. 2 (Sept. 1991)
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Taqlid and the Stagnation of
the Muslim Mind. The American Journal of
Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 8,
no. 3 (Dec. 1991)
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Political Science in the
Legacy of Classical Islamic Science. The
American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 7, no. 1 (March 1990)
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Islamic Perspectives on the
Question of History. The American Journal of
Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 7,
no. 2 (Sept. 1990)
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The Reconstruction of the
Muslim Mind: The Islamization of
Knowledge. The American Journal of Islamic and Social
Sciences, Vol. 7, no. 3 (Dec. 1990)
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Toward an Islamic
Alternative in Thought and Knowledge. The American Journal of Islamic and Social
Sciences, Vol. 6, no. 1 (Sept. 1989)
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Islamization of Methodology
of Behavior Sciences. The American Journal of
Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 6,
no 2 (Dec. 1989)
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The Islamic Lunar Calendar
as a Civilizational Imperative. The
American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 9, no. 4 (Winter 1972)
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Fiqh al-Aqallyyat – The
Introduction to Minority Jurisprudence
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Answering
Fiqh questions from an Islamic Point
of View.
§
Speaker
several times in the annual conference of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), in Chicago, the last one
was held in September 2000
§
Speaker
at Fiqh Conference in Trinidad, West
Indies, on May 25-31, 2000
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Zaghwan
Conference The Islamic Thought During the
Ottoman Empire, sponsored by the Center of Ottoman Studies and
Documentation, Tunisia, 1988
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Conference
of Islamization and Knowledge, jointly
sponsored by the International Institute of Islamic Thought and The Islamic
University in Islamabad, Pakistan, 1982
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The
Conference of The Islamic Union of
Student Organizations, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1981
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The
Conference of al-Shaykh Muhammad Ibn
Abdul Wahhab, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1980
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The
Camp of Muslim Youth, Turkey, 1980
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The
Camp of Muslim Youth, Bangladesh, 1980
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The
Fourth International Gathering of the International
Assembly of Muslim Youth, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1979
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The
Third International Gathering of the International
Assembly of Muslim Youth, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1976
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The
Conference of Fiqh, Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, 1976
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The
Camp of Muslim Youth of Africa, Bamako, Mali
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Speaker
in The Islamic Thought Gatherings in
Algeria (the 11th, 16th, and 17th)
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Thirty-five
to forty students in various universities in Saudi Arabia.
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Fifty-five
to sixty Masters degrees in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and GSISS in
PERSONAL
Nationality: Iraqi/American
Date
of Birth: May 12, 1935