Sheikh Usama Al-Sayed Al-Azhari is an Azhari scholar, preacher, an academic and a Senior Fellow of Kalam Research & Media. He teaches Hadith, Logic, and Islamic Creed at the renowned Al-Azhar Mosqueâs Riwaq Al-Atrak in Cairo, Egypt. He also holds a teaching post in the Faculty of Usul Al-Din and Da`wah at Al-Azhar University, Egypt.
Birth: 16 July 1976 (Age: 47)
Source of Influence: Scholarly
Influence: Scholar
School of Thought: Sunni, Traditional Sunni
Status: Featured in current year
Sheikh Usama Al-Sayed Al-Azhari is an Azhari scholar, preacher, an academic and a Senior Fellow of Kalam Research & Media. He teaches Hadith, Logic, and Islamic Creed at the renowned Al-Azhar Mosqueâs Riwaq Al-Atrak in Cairo, Egypt. He also holds a teaching post in the Faculty of Usul Al-Din and Da`wah at Al-Azhar University, Egypt.
Scholar:Â Sheikh Usama was chosen by the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, to deliver the Friday sermons on his behalf in the Sultan Hassan Mosque. He has studied with many esteemed scholÂars from all over the Islamic world, acquiring nuÂmerous authorisations (ijazaat), all testifying to his accepted position in the unbroken chains of transÂmission known as isnad, essential in the field of IslamÂic sciences and scholarship.
Peace Activist: He is considered to be one of the most influential voices calling for and working toÂwards reaching new understandings founded on the Islamic tradition and in ways that accommodate the contemporary condition. In this regard, he has preÂsented a number of original and fresh ideas attemptÂing to renew authentic Islamic outlooks, through his publishing and scholarly contributions. Some of the ideas include creating a relational map of shariâah sciences and their relationship with other circles of sciences, creating âIslamic hermeneuticsâ, reviving the tradition of auditing religious sciences and transmitÂting them through a chain of transmission as a criteriÂon of authenticity, and the Qurâanic accommodation of different civilisations, amongst others.