Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti

Islamic scholar Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti
Title	Doctor, Professor, Sheikh, Imam
Born	1929 (age 81–82) Jilka, Syria
Ethnicity	Kurdish
Region	Syria
Maddhab	Shafi'i
Main interests	Islamic theology, Islamic law, Islamic legal philosophy

Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti (born 1929) born in Jilka, Turkey is a prominent Syrian professor and Islamic scholar specializing in Islamic theology and Islamic law. He has authored of numerous books, some of which have been translated to English.

Biography

Born in 1929 in the village of Jilka, which belongs to the island of "Butan", i.e. Ibn 'Umar, situating inside the Turkish boundaries^[1], north of Iraq. He immigrated to Damascus with his late father, Mulla Ramadan when he was four years old.

Completed his legal secondary study in the Institute of Islamic Guidance in Damascus, and joined the faculty of religion at Al-Azhar University. He acquired 'The International' Certificate there in 1955. Next year, he joined the faculty of Arabic at Al-Azhar, too and acquired education Diploma at the end of the same year.

Appointed as Dean in the Faculty of Religion at Damascus University in 1960^[2], and deputed to Al-Azhar University to attain doctorate in the roots of the Islamic law. He could acquire the relevant certificate in 1965.

Appointed as instructor in the college of law of Damascus University in 1965, as a deputy of the college later on and as its dean then as a the chief of the Department of tenets and religions at Damascus University.^[3]

Participated, and is still participating, in many global conferences and symposia, and is, in addition, a member in the royal society of the Islamic Civilization Researches in Amman, and member in the higher board of Oxford academy.

Speaks Turkish and Kurdish well, and fair in English.

Wrote no less than forty books on the sciences of religion, literature, philosophy and sociology, the problems of civilization and others.

Activities

Dr. M. Sa'id Ramadan Al-Buti is the Head of the Beliefs and Religions Department in the Faculty of Islamic Law, Damascus University

He lectures frequently in the mosques of Damascus and other Syrian cities, to a numerous audience.

He participates to a wide number of international conferences and symposiums dealing with varied branches of the Islamic culture in several Arab, Islamic, European and American countries.

At present, he is a member of the Royal Society of the Islamic Civilization Researches in Amman, Jordan.

He is also a member of the High Council of the Oxford Academy in England.

He writes in several newspapers and journals on Islamic topics, and entertains a dialogue with readers via his column

Works

Dr. Buti has written numerous extremely detailed works mostly about Islamic law and theology. Among them are:

• Kubra al-Yaqiniyyat al-Kawniyya - a theology textbook
• Al-Madah’ib al-Tawhidiyah wa Falasafaat al-Mu’asira - a theology textbook
• Fiqh al-Sirah - a biography of the Prophet Muhammad
• Al-Jihad fi al-Islam - legal perspectives on Jihad
• Dawabit al-Maslaha - a text on legal methodology

Notes

1. ^ [The Oxford dictionary of Islam By John L. Esposito]
2. ^ [The Oxford dictionary of Islam By John L. Esposito]
3. ^ [1]

References

• Esposito, John (2003). The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. ISBN-10: 0195125592

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Persondata
Name	al-Buti, Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan
Alternative names
Short description	Islamic scholar
Date of birth	1929
Place of birth	Jilka, Syria
Date of death
Place of death