Al Habash

Muhammad Al-Habash was born in Damascus, Syria in 1962. He received three B. A. degrees: Islamic law from Damascus University; Arabic literature from Beirut University; and Islamic studies from Islamic Call College. He received his M. A. degree in Islamic studies from the University of Higher Studies, Karachi and his Ph. D. in the sciences of the Qur’an from the University of the Holy Qur’an in Khartoum. He has been a professor of the sciences of the Holy Qur’an in the Islamic Call College since 1988 and professor of “Tafsir” in the College of Usul Ed-din since 1992. Al-Habash has served as secretary of the Center of Introducing Islam and Arabic Civilization. In addition to teaching, he has lectured at the University of Damascus in 1992; served as director of both the Institutes of the Holy Qur’an in Syria since 1989; as well as the Islamic Studies Center in Damascus since 1987. He is also a member of Syrian Parliament and a member of the Administrative Committee there.