Mohammad Habash

Mohamed Habash was born on 1 October 1962 in Damascus. He grew up in his Sheikh Ahmed Kuftaro School of Islamic Sciences in Damascus, memorized the Qur’an under supervision of Sheikh Muhammad Sukkar, and studied Islamic science at the Islamic Institute for Da`wah, and then obtained a degree of recitation with frequent readings from “Sheikh of the Readers” Muhammad Sukkar and from Syrian fatwa, He obtained a license in "Sharia" from the University of Damascus and then continued his achievement, obtaining three degrees in BA in Arab and Islamic sciences from the universities of Damascus, Tripoli and Beirut. He also obtained a master’s degree and received a doctorate from the University of the Noble Qur’an in Khartoum under the supervision of Dr. Wahba Al-Zuhaili and Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Imam) and in 2010 University of Craiova, the most ancient Romanian universities, has announced isthat the PhD of honor awarded by the university every two years, once, has been allocated to Dr. Muhammad Habash in appreciation of his research and his activity in the dialogue of religions, especially his book The Biography of the Messenger Muhammad, and the university has translated it into Romanian and was considered a decision for students of faculties of theology at the university, where The unique degree was delivered at the university's Blue Hall at a grand official ceremony.

Dr. Muhammad Habash adopted the religious renewal, particularly affected by Sheikh Ahmed Kaftaro and Sheikh Jawdat Saeed, and launched his project through the Islamic Studies Center in Damascus, which he founded and supervised, and held several Islamic conferences to promote the discourse of Islamic enlightenment. He founded the Enlightenment Book Association and was twice elected president of the Association of Sharia Scholars in Syria.

He has published 52 printed books on the issues of Islamic enlightenment, and is well known for his bold articles in Arab newspapers, and for his many programs on satellite stations and Arab radio stations.

Dr. Habash adopts a number of issues of religious renewal, the most important of which are: rejecting the monopoly of salvation, renewing women's jurisprudence in Islam and reviving the sources of the absent Sharia, which means giving a greater role in the legislation to the mind at the expense of the text.

His rise was rapid and came as a shock to the traditional discourse, and he was severely criticized by conservative figures, while he was widely accepted by the enlightenment and modernization trends in Islam, and this led to a series of intellectual confrontations, published in a number of newspapers, and he continued to practice public speaking, imamate and religious functions and published In many newspapers magazines.

He declared his position on the events in Syria, rejected the violent solution adopted by the regime, and also rejected the armament carried out by the revolutionaries, and called for peace to lay down arms and sit at the table of dialogue, and was among the most prominent advocates of peace during that stage.

Dr. Habash summarizes his intellectual project in a special letter entitled the message of renewal, and summarizes it with lines and addresses:

• Brotherhood of religions and human dignity
• Islam without violence
• Religions without wars
• Dialogues in the brotherhood of religions in Damascus
• Human freedom is a sacred right and slavery in all its colors is disbelief and shame
• Every fact proven by science is the word of God, and it has the power of a written book
• The Qur’an is a lined book and the universe is a published Qur’an
• The Quran is a guiding light, not a restriction
• The Sunnah of the Prophet is a wonderful experience of struggle, inspiring and not binding
• The system of governance in Islam is: and their command is a consultation between them
• The system of life in Islam is: You know the things of your world
• The analogy with the holly book is light, but the judgment is for reality.
• We take the legacy of the parent fathers not ash
• A religion between religions, not a religion above religions
• Democracy is God's instinct
• Humanity is one family, and man is the brother of man
• Against the monopoly of salvation, the monopoly of heaven, the monopoly of religion and the monopoly of truth

* Biography of the Messenger of God - translated into English and Romanian

• Democratic Prophet
• Muslims and the sciences of civilization
• Islam without violence
• A prophet for the sake of man
• The woman between Sharia and life
• Banks and usury
• Common is more than you think
• Approved in the principles of jurisprudence
• Recurrent readings and their impact on Sharia judgment
• Comprehensive readings
• Dagestan yearnings
• Honor of the word and the message of Islamic media
• Masterpieces of wisdom
• Approach to renewal and repair
• Islam without wars
• Diplomacy instead of war
• Corporal punishment and human dignity
• Neighbors on one planet

Also published in English three books printed and published by Lambert House - Germany:

• Mohammad the messenger of peace
• The democratic prophet
• Islam without wars

several studies were written aboutDr. Al-Habash wrote, including "Religious Renewal in Syria", which was written by Dr. Paul Hak of Princeton University in the United States, and he talked about the revamping project adopted by Dr. Habash. The book was printed repeatedly in English and Arabic, and it was also published by Ali Taha, Sadiq Al-Mastawi, Adel Al-Hamedi, Ghassan Yousef Ala Al-Rashi, Hael Al-Yousifi, Raymond Zaitouni, and others, a series of lengthy intellectual dialogues to summarize his idea, and Bassam Al-Zain wrote a dialogue book in the criticism of the book of women between Sharia and Life entitled "My Friend of Habash", as Badr Al-Din Aroudi, Ihsan Al-Hussein, Wael Mirza and others wrote various articles in criticizing his thought or His support.

He was elected in 2006 as Vice President of the International Islamic Forum for Moderation, and he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic University in Islamabad and the University of Al-Jazira and a member of the Arab Writers Union and a number of international and local Islamic organizations. He also practiced university teaching in the College of Sharia and the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion and the College of Islamic Call and Academy The Supreme Military Forces in Syria and supervised a number of PhDs and promotions at the University of Jordan and the College of Islamic Call

He received the Renewal Books Association Award for his book "Diplomacy Instead of War" 2017.

Since 2012 he moved to the UAE where he worked as an associate professor at the University of Abu Dhabi, at the College of Arts and Sciences, then at the College of Law, where he teaches Islamic courses at the university.

Present as a visiting professor at a number of international universities, the most important of which are: University of Helsinki, Finland 1998 - Lund University in Sweden 2003 - University of Craiova - Romania 2009 - University of Oslo - Norway 2012 - University of Rostock - Germany 2016 and other universities

International awards

• Religious Scope (in French)
• Islam’s fanatical one percent, opinion article by Mohammad Habash