Scientific Committee
Prof. Yomna Tareef Al-Kholy is the Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. She won a number of national encouragement and merit awards let alone many awards from Cairo University in humanities and international publishing.
She participated in several international conferences held inside and outside Egypt. She further participated in the foundation of the philosophy department at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria wherein she taught from 2013 until 2015.
She authored many books in History, Philosophy and Research Methodologies such as, “Settlement of Scientific Methodology: Future and Historical Philosophical Approaches”, “Towards an Islamic Scientific Methodology: The Settlement of Science in Our Culture”, issued by the Arab Foundation of Thought and Creativity, and “The Issue of Humanities: Its Legalization and the Possibility of Solving it”. She further has a number of translations such as, “The Mechanical Mind: A Philosophical Introduction to Minds, Machines and Intellectual Representation”; “Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Feminist, Multicultural Postcolonial World”. Besides, she authored a number of studies published in journals and took part in international conferences on the same fields.
Dr. Refaat Al-Awadi is a professor of Islamic Economics at Al-Azhar University and the Higher Institute of Islamic Studies in Cairo. He is also the Head of the Department of Economics at the International University of Latin America (UIAL). He is a former professor of Islamic Economics at Qatar University, Umm Al-Qura University, Yarmouk Private University, and the International Islamic University of Islamabad.
Dr. Al-Awadi has majorly contributed to the field of the Scientific Miracle of the Qur’an, with his book Osos Ta’sil al-E’jaz al-‘Elmi fil-Qur’an al-Karim wal-Sunna an-Nabawiyya fi Majalat al-‘Ulum al-Ijtima’iyya (The Foundations of Tracing the Origins of Scientific Miracles in the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet in the Fields of Social Sciences), in addition to a number of books published in the fields of Islamic and traditional economics. These include, among others: Basic Introduction to Islamic Economics, Encyclopedia of Islamic Economics: Banks, Money, and Financial Markets, Economic Moderation in Islam, Zakat and Accommodation to Development, The Scientific Heritage of Muslims in Economics: Rational Arab Contributions, The Miracle of the Qur’an in the Prohibition of Riba and its Use in the Fields of Humanities and Social Sciences.
He also works as a Sharia observer for a number of companies, as an academic advisor for the International Institute of Islamic Thought in Cairo, and as Director of the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah in Cairo.
Prof. Shokry Megahed is the Professor and Head of English Literature Department at Ain Shams University. He is also the former Head of the National Center for Translation. He is an authorized referee in a number of scientific journals specialized in publishing scientific and academic research in Egypt. He taught at the Faculties of Education, Arts, Girls, and Al-Alsun at Ain Shams University. Moreover, he taught at the Faculty of Education in the Suez Canal University and the Faculty of Girls in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
He authored research papers published in English on the criticism and analysis of novels and stories in the English and American Literature. He further has a number of translated books on various domains such as, “The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism”; “Communication Across Cultures”; “Rethinking Muslim Women and The Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes”; “This Law of Ours and Other Essays”; “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World”; “The Landscape of History: How the Historians Map the Past” and “Rethinking Secularism”.
He is a professor of Islamic Political Theory in Helwan University. He is a former lecturer at the International Institute of Islamic Banking and Economics, and teaches in several faculties at Helwan, Ain Shams, and October 6 universities, and the Higher Institute of Technology in various subjects. In addition, he held the position of Professor and former Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Applied Sciences.
He participated in the scientific arbitration of research in several scientific journals in Egypt, Kuwait and Sudan, in addition to supervising and discussing master’s and doctoral theses as well as his role in the Standing Committee for Promotions of the degrees of assistant professor and professor of political science in the Arab Republic of Egypt, Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates.
He has actively contributed to many projects, such as building political concepts, rooting the Islamism of knowledge’s approach, and political upbringing and education according to the Islamic perspective.
He has published tens of books and studies, including: “The Political Role of the Elite in the Early Era of Islam”, “Eastern and Western Political Thinking”, “Combining Sciences: Prerequisites and Conditions according to the Qur’anic Perspective”, and “The Political Institution in the Qur’anic Perspective”.
Prof. Mohamed Sofar is the Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences at Cairo University. He has a Ph.D. in Politics from the Freie Universität Berlin. He majored in Political Philosophy and Islamic Political Thought. Some of his published books include, “Authenticity”, “The Deconstruction of Power Concept according to Michel Foucault: The Reopening of the Iranian File”, and “Studies in Egyptian Political Thinking”. He translated “Political Ideologies: An Introduction” by Andrew Heywood, “Theories of International relations”, “Al-Azhar and Shari’a” and “Remembering World War I”.
He is an Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, Turkey, a teacher of Islamic history at Cairo University, a researcher at the Texts Verification Center at Al-Azhar University previously, an active member of the Egyptian Society for Historical Studies, and a member of the advisory board of the Iraqi al-Mawred magazine. He won Sheikh Zayed’s Book Award 2022 (Translation Category) for translating “The Rise of Humanism in Classical Islam and the Christian west by George Makdisi” book.
He has a number of published books, such as “The Sabians since the Advent of Islam until the Fall of The Abbasid Caliphate”, and “The Plague in the Umayyad Era: Unknown Pages from the History of the Umayyad Caliphate”. In addition to translating a number of books into Arabic, such as: “Classical Literature” by William Allan, “Islamic Economics A Short History” by Ahmed Al-Ashqar and Rodney Wilson, the introduction to the Muqaddimah of of Ibn Khaldun’s biography and an introduction to his Muqaddimah by Franz Rosenthal, and “The Silk Roads: A New History of the World” by Peter Frankopan, among others.
In addition to dozens of studies, scientific papers and articles published in peer-reviewed journals and on the Internet.
Prof. Badr Eddin Mustafa Ahmed is the Professor of Aesthetics and Contemporary Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Cairo University. He is a member of the Committee of Philosophy at the Supreme Council of Culture and the Editor-in-Chief of the Philosophy Series issued by the General Organization of Culture Palaces of Egypt. A number of his compilations were published such as “Metaphysics”, “The Philosophy of Post- Modernism”, “The Philosophy of Beauty”, “Philosophical Conundrums”, and “The Paths of Postmodernism”. He made a number of translations under publication such as, “What is Power?” by Arkan for Studies, Research, and Publishing, “The Phenomenological Mind”, “What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic”, and “Political Thinkers from Socrates to the Present”.
He was chosen as a member of a team preparing the Encyclopedia of Occidentalism, which is issued under the supervision of the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic studies at Qatar University. He further has many studies published in journals and platforms linking between cinema and philosophy, identity and resistance, and philosophical dimensions of media.
Prof. Ahmad Abdullah Najm is the Professor of History and Ottoman Civilization at the Department of Eastern Languages at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University. He is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Social Sciences and Education, which is issued in Turkey.
He authored and translated a number of books such as, “Education in the Ottoman State: A Study of Madrasas’ Role since the Rise of the State until the Death of Sultan Suleiman Al-Qanooni” (2019) by Arkan for Studies, Research, and Publishing, and “A Commentary on the Islamic Caliphate and the Virtues of the Ottoman Caliphate by the former Sheikh of Al-Azhar Hassan Al-Attar”. He translated that book into Turkish. He also translated “Jews in the Ottoman State until the End of the Nineteenth Century” (2019) by Arkan for Studies, Research, and Publishing. He translated “The Democratic Transformation in Turkey”, “The Crimean Authors at the Time of Ottoman Rule”, “A Voyage on the Nile”, and “The Encyclopedia of History and Politics”.
Former Executive Director of the International Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences in Kuwait since 2017, and former judge in Egyptian courts from 2002 to 2014.
He graduated from Faculty of Law in 1999 and got his PhD in Philosophy of Criminal Law in 2018. He received two master’s degrees: one in Islamic economics from the Higher Institute of Islamic Studies in Cairo in 2016 and the other in private law from Faculty of Law at Mansoura University in 2007. He also earnt two diplomas from University of Cairo: one in Islamic and Western philosophy from Faculty of Arts in 2017, and the other in anthropology from Faculty of African Research and Studies 2016. In addition, he got a diploma in Islamic studies from the Higher Institute of Islamic Studies in Cairo in 2012.
He has published a number of books on the history of law and Sharia and their philosophy, including: “The wisdom and Philosophy of Legislation”, “Islamic Banking Law: a Legitimate Necessity and Future Vision”, “The Miracle of Islamic Legislation”, “The Application of Sharia Between Reality and Hope: Historical Topics and Facts in the Issue of Legislation and Application of Sharia”, “Now, Omar: a Historical Study in Authenticating and Keeping Sunnah”, and “The Battle of Sharia in the Constitution”. He also received the 2013 Islamic Research Academy Award in “Legislative Miracles” and has participated several times in international conferences and research in a number of scholarly journals in the same fields.
