Muhammad Saeed Alrahawan Biography

Dr. Alrahawan is Mishkah University’s Dean of Academic Affairs, and teaches courses in Fiqh, Hadith and Quran Sciences. He was instrumental in founding the university’s undergraduate Islamic Studies program in English. In addition he has an intensive history of scholarship at one of the oldest institutions in the world, Al-Azhar University. At the age of 21, he obtained his B.A. in Islamic studies from Al-Azhar University, earning the highest score at the Department of Islamic Studies in English. He gained his M.A. in 2002 on Hadith Textual Criticism in Muslim and Modern Western Studies and his PhD in 2007 at Al-Azhar, both in the field of Hadith Sciences. In addition to teaching at Mishkah, he continues to train local and international students at Al-Azhar University. He taught for 9 years at the Department of Orientalism at Taibah University in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah. Dr. Rahawan specializes in Hadith Sciences, Jurisprudence and Criticism, Quran Science and Shafi’i jurisprudence. He has many published works on Hadith, Islamic Legal Theory and Contemporary Fiqh Issues. He is currently a member of the AMJA (Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America) Committee of Senior Scholars.