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Dr. Magdy Ashour
Dr. Magdy Ashour is the former academic advisor to the Grand Mufti of Egypt, former head of the Fatwa Secretariat Committee at Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyya (Egyptian Fatwa Authority), and former director of Al-Nas Religious Satellite Channel.
Work Experience:
- Former academic advisor to the Grand Mufti of Egypt.
- Former head of the Fatwa Secretariat Committee at Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyya (Egyptian Fatwa Authority).
- Former director of Al-Nas Religious Satellite Channel.
Membership in Academic Committees:
- Member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs – Egyptian Ministry of Awqaf.
- Expert in the jurisprudential committees of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
- Member of the Academic Supervisory Committee for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Project: "Reprinting Islamic Heritage Books from the 13th and 14th Centuries AH/19th and 20th Centuries AD."
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Egyptian Dar al-Ifta magazine and former referee for its scientific research.
- Former member of the Advisory Board of the General Secretariat of Fatwa Authorities Worldwide.
- Advisor for scientific research submitted for the Dr. Mohamed Shawki Al-Fangari Endowment Award for the Service of Islamic Da’wah and Fiqh.
- Member of the editorial board of Al-Muslim Al-Mu’asir magazine.
- Former Vice-Chair of the Academic Committee of the Distance Learning website, affiliated with the Egyptian Dar al-Ifta.
- Chair of the Sharī‘a Board at Banque Misr.
- Head of the Sharī‘a Board of the Gold Fund at Banque Misr.
- Deputy Head of the Sharī‘a Board at United Bank.
- Head of the Sharī‘a Committee of the Gold Fund (Azimut).
- Member of the Sharī‘a Committee and Sharia Supervisor at Misr Takaful Insurance Company and several other companies.
- Member of Sharī‘a committees at some Islamic financial institutions and companies.
- Participated in presenting a number of radio and television programs, most notably: the program "Fiqh Minute" broadcast on radio and television.
- He has participated in numerous seminars and conferences in Egypt and abroad.
Academic Publications and Research:
- The book "A Minute of Fiqh." An accessible encyclopedia of fiqh, published in three parts: Part One on Worship; Part Two: Financial Transactions and Banking; Part Three: Personal Status; Part Four: Miscellaneous and Diverse Topics; Fiqh of the State, New Developments, and Contemporary Issues; Supplications and Remembrance of Allah. Published by Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyya, with another edition published by Dar al-Salam Library in Cairo.
- The Constant and the Variable in the Thought of Imam Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi (A Fundamentalist Study of Objectives), Master’s thesis, published by Dar al-Bahuth for Islamic Studies and Heritage Revival, Dubai (2002). An expanded and revised edition is available from Dar al-Salam Library in Cairo.
- Introduction to the Study: Divine Laws in the Holy Quran, published by the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs as part of a series of Islamic studies, issue 111, (1425 AH/2004).
- Divine Laws in Nations and Individuals in the Holy Quran, Principles and Rules, Doctoral Thesis, published by Dar Al-Salam (2006).
- The Forty in the Practice of Fatwa and its Rules, published by Dar Al-Salam in Cairo.
- The Depiction of Prophets and Companions in Artistic Works from a Sharī‘a Perspective, research presented at the 21st session of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy Conference (1435 AH / 2013 AD).
- The Foundations of Sharī‘a Political Jurisprudence Among the Sunnis and the Community, a research paper presented at the 13th annual symposium of the Omani Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, "The Development of Jurisprudential Sciences," under the title "Islamic Jurisprudence: Human Commonality and Interests" (1435 AH/2014 AD).
- The Correct Understanding of Heritage and Its Impact on Treating Intellectual Deviance: Frameworks and Applications, a research paper presented to the International Conference of Al-Azhar University in Assiut (1437 AH/2016 AD).
- The role of collective ijtihad in the renewal of fatwas, using the Egyptian Dar al-Ifta as an example, a paper presented to the General Secretariat of Fatwa Authorities Worldwide Conference, entitled "Renewal in Fatwas: Theory and Practice" (1439 AH/2018 AD).
- Weighting Legal Objectives (A Fundamental and Applied Study), currently in print.
- "The ruling on dealing with invalid contracts in non-Muslim countries." Article published in the Egyptian Dar al-Ifta magazine.
- Badr al-Tamam in prayer and peace be upon the best of mankind in the Qur’an, published by Maktabat al-Wabil al-Sayyib, Cairo.