Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Yusuf al-Qaradawi (; 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.

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.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 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.

 Views 
He views music as permissible, and listens to it himself,Ar-Rayyah Al-Qatariyyah [5969-5970] he permits acting on movie sets and condemns those who withdraw from acting,Al-Liwaa al-Islami (no. 1198) believes mortgages are permissible, and shaving the beard to be makruh.

 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.Silsilah al-Huda wa ʾl-Nur 362/6

Shaykh Fawzan: He released a book called refuting Qaradawi's book "Al-Halal wal-Haram" where he is very lax.

References

Other websites


 onislam.net

 Al-Qaradawi's books translated into English and French 
 Wolfgang G. Schwanitz: Global Mufti al-Qaradawi, Webversion 12-2010
 "Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi: Portrait of a leading Islamist cleric" , 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

Category:1926 births
Category:2022 deaths
Category:Egyptian Muslims
Category:Qatari people
Category:Muslim scholars