Jasser Auda
Jasser Auda (Cairo, November 1966) is a scholar and distinguished professor of Islamic law, in particular, the study of the higher purposes or "maqasid" of the Sharia. He is the President of Maqasid Institute Global, which is a think tank registered in the United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia and Indonesia, and has educational and research programs in a number of countries. Major works. He is a member of the Fiqh Council of North America, the European Council for Fatwa and Research, and a fellow at the Fiqh Academy of India. He has a PhD in the philosophy of  Islamic law from the University of Wales, UK, and a PhD in systems analysis from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Early in his life, he memorized the Quran and studied at the Study Circles of Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. He worked previously as a professor at University of Waterloo, Carleton University and Ryerson University in Canada, Alexandria University in Egypt, Islamic University in Sanjaq, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, American University of Sharjah in the UAE and University of Bahrain. He lectured on Islam and its law in dozens of countries. He currently spearheads the Masters in Applied  Islamic Thought Programme at the International Peace College in South Africa which he also founded in 2020. He has also been lecturing in the Honours programme at the same institute based in Cape Town. He wrote 25 books in Arabic and English, some of which were translated to 25 languages.