Resume

 

Dr. TAHA JABIR ALALWANI

 

45150 Russell Branch Parkway, Suite: 303

Ashburn, VA 20147

W: 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,

Herndon, VA

 

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

 

1988                            Visiting Professor, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France

 

1984-1985             Visiting Professor, University of Brunei, Brunei

 

 

MEMBERSHIPS_______________________________________________________

 

Founding Member of the Islamic World League, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

President of the Fiqh Council of North America

President of the Board of Trustees of Heritage Educational Trust, Leesburg, VA

Member of the Fiqh Council of Europe

Member of the Royal Academy for Islamic Civilization, Amman, Jordan

Member of International Fiqh Assembly, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Member of the Islamic and National Conference, Beirut, Lebanon

Member of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought

Advisor to the International Islamic Union of Student Organization

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 Advisory Board of al-Kalimah Magazine, Beirut, Lebanon

Member of the Advisory Board of al-Musil Muslim al-Mua’sir Magazine, Cairo, Egypt

Member of the Advisory Committee of the Journal of Law and Religion

Member of the Shari’ah Council (Karamah Fiqh Council)

Advisor of UNESCO in Islamic Studies, France

Advisor of ESESCO in Rabat, Morocco

 

 

EDUCATION_____________________________________________________

 

1973                                Ph.D. in Islamic Law, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

 

1968                                M.A. in Islamic Law, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

 

1959                                B.A. with Honors in Islamic Law, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

 

LANGUAGES_____________________________________________________

Arabic

English

Persian

PATENTS AND PUBLICATIONS:

 

Works in Arabic:

 

-          Missing Dimensions in the Thought and Practice of the Contemporary Islamic Movements, Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1997

 

-          Hakimiyat al-Qur’an (Sovereignty of al-Qur’an), Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1996

 

-          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

 

-          Combine the two readings:  The Revelation and The Universe, Herndon, VA;

The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1996

 

-          Ibn Taymiyah wa Islamiyat al-Ma’rifah (Ibn Taymiyah and the Islamization of Knowledge), Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1994

 

-          Usul al-Fiqh al-Islami (Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence) Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1994

 

-          Adab al-‘Ikhtilaf fil Islam (Ethics of Disagreement) Herndon, VA; The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1989

 

-          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

 

-          Usul Al-Fiqh al-Islami (Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence) Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1988

 

-          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

 

-          Al-Ijtihad wa al-Taqlid fi al-Islam (Legal Reasoning and Imitation in Islam), Cairo, Egypt:  Dra al-Ansar, 1979

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works in English:

 

-          Missing Dimensions in Contemporary Islamic Movements, Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, Occasional Papers Series, No. 9, 1996

 

-          The Islamization of Knowledge:  Yesterday and Today, Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, Occasional Papers Series, No. 8, 1995

 

-          Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence:  Usul al-Fiqh al-Islami, Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1994

 

-          Ijtihad, Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, Occasional Papers Series, No. 4, 1993

 

-          The Qur’an and the Sunnah:  The Time-Space Factor, Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, Occasional Papers Series, No. 3, 1991

 

-          Outlines of a Cultural Strategy, Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought, Occasional Papers Series, No. 1, 1989

 

-          The Ethics of Disagreement in Islam, Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of   

Islamic Thought, 1989.  Also published in Arabic.

 

-          Human Rights in Islam

 

-          The Position of Islamic Law, Herndon, VA:  The International Institute of Islamic Thought

 

-            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:

 

-          The Rights of the Accused in Islam before Investigation

 

-          The Jurisprudence of Minorities

 

-          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

 

-          Al-Fiqh wa al-Hadharah (Jurisprudence and Civilization).  Paper was presented in the Conference of the Islamic Civilization, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 1984

 

-          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

 

-          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

 

-          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

 

-          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

 

-          (Introduction to) Muqaddimah fi Islamiyat al-Ma’rifah, Bayrut:  Dar al-Hadi, 2001.

 

-          (How to) Islah al-fikr al-Islami, Bayrut:  Dar al-Hadi, 2002.

 

-          (The main cause) Maqasid al-Shari’ah, Bayrut:  Dar al-Hadi, 2001.

 

-          (Combined the two) al-Jama’ bayna al-Qira’tayn, Cairo, IIIT, 1987.        

 

 

Papers Published in English:

 

-          Fatwa Concerning the United States Supreme Courtroom Frieze, Reprinted from

The Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. XV, Nos. 1 & 2, 2000-2001

 

-          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)

 

-          The Testimony of Women in Islamic Law.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 13, no. 2 (Summer 1996)

 

-          Authority:  Divine or Qur’anic.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 13, no. 4 (Winter 1996)

 

-          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)

 

-          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).

 

-          Naturalization and the Rights of Citizens.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring 1994)

 

-          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.

 

-          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)

 

-          The Crisis of Thought and Ijtihad.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 10, no. 2 (Summer 1993)

 

-          Taqlid and Ijtihad:  The Lexical and Technical Meanings of Taqlid.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 9, no. 2 (Summer 1992)

 

-          The Scope of Taqlid.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 9, no. 3 (Fall 1992)

 

-          Taqlid and Ijtihad:  The Polemics of Ijtihad.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 8, no. 1 (March 1991)

 

-          The Crisis in Fiqh and the Methdology of Ijtihad.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 8, no. 2 (Sept. 1991)

 

-          Taqlid and the Stagnation of the Muslim Mind.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 8, no. 3 (Dec. 1991)

 

-          Political Science in the Legacy of Classical Islamic Science.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 7, no. 1 (March 1990)

 

-          Islamic Perspectives on the Question of History.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 7, no. 2 (Sept. 1990)

 

-          The Reconstruction of the Muslim Mind:  The Islamization of Knowledge.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 7, no. 3 (Dec. 1990)

 

-          Toward an Islamic Alternative in Thought and Knowledge. The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 6,  no. 1 (Sept. 1989)

 

-          Islamization of Methodology of Behavior Sciences.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 6, no 2 (Dec. 1989)

 

-          The Islamic Lunar Calendar as a Civilizational Imperative.  The American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences, Vol. 9, no. 4 (Winter 1972)

-          Fiqh al-Aqallyyat – The Introduction to Minority Jurisprudence

 

-          Answering Fiqh questions from an Islamic Point of View.

CONFERENCES___________________________________________________

 

§         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

 

§         Zaghwan Conference The Islamic Thought During the Ottoman Empire, sponsored by the Center of Ottoman Studies and Documentation, Tunisia, 1988

 

§         Conference of Islamization and Knowledge, jointly sponsored by the International Institute of Islamic Thought and The Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan, 1982

 

§         The Conference of The Islamic Union of Student Organizations, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1981

 

§         The Conference of al-Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1980

 

§         The Camp of Muslim Youth, Turkey, 1980

 

§         The Camp of Muslim Youth, Bangladesh, 1980

 

§         The Fourth International Gathering of the International Assembly of Muslim Youth, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1979

 

§         The Third International Gathering of the International Assembly of Muslim Youth, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1976

 

§         The Conference of Fiqh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1976

 

§         The Camp of Muslim Youth of Africa, Bamako, Mali

 

§         Speaker in The Islamic Thought Gatherings in Algeria (the 11th, 16th, and 17th)

 

 

SUPERVISING DEGREES____________________________________________

 

§         Thirty-five to forty students in various universities in Saudi Arabia.

 

§         Fifty-five to sixty Masters degrees in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and GSISS in

Leesburg, VA

 

 

 

PERSONAL

 

Marital status:               Married

Nationality:                   Iraqi/American

Date of Birth:                May 12, 1935