Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Yusuf al-Qaradawi (Arabic: يُوسُفُ الْقَرَضَاوِي, romanized: Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī; 9 September 1926 – 26 September 2022) was an Egyptian-born Qatari Islamic scholar. He spent most of his life in Doha, Qatar. He is the chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.[1]
He is best known for his programme, al-Sharīʿa wa al-Ḥayāh ("Sharia and Life"), broadcast on Al Jazeera, which has an audience of 60 million worldwide.[2][3] He is also well known for IslamOnline, a popular website he helped found in 1997 and for which he now serves as chief religious scholar.[4]
Views
He views music as permissible, and listens to it himself,[5] he permits acting on movie sets and condemns those who withdraw from acting,[6] believes mortgages are permissible,[7] and shaving the beard to be makruh.[8]
Criticism
Shaykh al-Albani: He was criticised for having a very dangerous philosophy and passing verdicts that contradict the sharia, such as how he permitted music by Shaykh al-Albani.[9]
Shaykh Fawzan: He released a book called refuting Qaradawi's book "Al-Halal wal-Haram" where he is very lax.[10]
References
- ↑ AFP (news agency) (11 May 2014). "Qatar-based cleric calls for Egypt vote boycott". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on 16 June 2014.
- ↑ No.9 Sheikh Dr Yusuf al Qaradawi, Head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars – "The 500 most influential Muslims in the world 2009", Prof John Esposito and Prof Ibrahim Kalin – Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
- ↑ Smoltczyk, Alexander (15 February 2011). "Islam's Spiritual 'Dear Abby': The Voice of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
- ↑ "Alexa site info IslamOnline.net Ranking#3880 1 March 2010". Alexa. 16 February 2010. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
- ↑ Ar-Rayyah Al-Qatariyyah [5969-5970]
- ↑ Al-Liwaa al-Islami (no. 1198)
- ↑ "Islamic Mortgages .co.uk: Buying Houses with mortgages: Ruling European Council for Fatwa and Research". www.islamicmortgages.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
- ↑ "GROWING BEARD IS IT MANDATORY IN ISLAM?". www.irfi.org. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
- ↑ Silsilah al-Huda wa ʾl-Nur 362/6
- ↑ "Criticism of book Al-Halal wal-Haram of Qaradawi - al-Fawzaan". SifatuSafwa. Retrieved 2025-04-25.
Other websites
- Official website (in Arabic)
- onislam.net
- Works by or about Yusuf al-Qaradawi in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Al-Qaradawi's books translated into English and French Archived 2009-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Wolfgang G. Schwanitz: Global Mufti al-Qaradawi, Webversion 12-2010
- "Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi: Portrait of a leading Islamist cleric" Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine, Ana Belén Soage, Middle East Review of International Affairs, 12/1 (March 2008), pp. 51–65.
- "Sheikh Yūsuf al-Qaradawi: A Moderate Voice from the Muslim World?", Ana Belén Soage, '[Religion Compass, 4 (September 2010), pp. 563–575.
- Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Minorities: Learned Intolerance, Qantara.de
- Daily Assembly 14 September 2005, Mayor of London about Qardawi and Pope John XXIII, pp. 12–13, Greater London Authority