Gibril F. Haddad

Early life Gibril Haddad was born in 1960 in Beirut, Lebanon to a middle-class Lebanese Catholic family. He has described his extended family as a mix of Eastern Orthodox and Roman/Maronite Catholics. He was raised in a mixed neighborhood and attended a Jesuit school that his father and grandfather had attended before him. Later his family moved to the United States where Haddad attended Columbia College in New York City and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then returned to Lebanon and got a job at his old school. He is currently chief editor of the Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān (IEQ). and an opponent of Salafism-Wahhabism. Jonathan A. C. Brown has noted Haddad to be an orthodox Sunni who has penned abrasive polemics against Salafism and mounted vigorous defense of traditional Islamic law.

He has published a complete translation of Qadi Ibn Jahbal al-Dimashqi's refutation of Ibn Taymiyya's Al-`Aqidat al-Hamawiyat al-Kubra ("The creed of the great people of Hama") as well as a primer on contemporary Salafism titled Albani and his Friends. He has criticized the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth for promoting Salafism. He has also written a critique of Deobandi scholar Taqi Usmani's fatwa against the celebration of Muhammad's birthday (Mawlid).

Works Gibril Haddad has written hundreds of articles and written, translated and published many books including:

Albani and His Friends: A Concise Guide to the “Salafi” Movement (2004) From the Two Holy Sanctuaries: A Hajj Journal (2006) The Four Imams and their Schools: Abu Hanifa, Malik, al-Shafi’i, Ahmad (2007) Sunna Notes: Studies in Hadith & Doctrine Volume I: Hadith History & Principles Sunna Notes: Studies in Hadith & Doctrine Volume II: The Excellent Innovation in the Qur’an and Hadith Ibn Khafif. Al-‘Aqida al-Sahiha (“Correct Islamic Doctrine”). Al-Bayhaqi. Al-Asma’ wal-Safat (“The Divine Names and Attributes”). Ibn ‘Abd al-Salam. Ai-Mulha fi I’tiqad Ahl al-Haqq (“Belief of the People of the Truth”). Ibn ‘Arabi. Aqidat al-‘Awamm min Ahl al-Islam (“Common Doctrine of the Muslim”). Sayyid Muhammad ‘Alawi al-Maliki. Al-Anbiya’ fi-Barzakh (“The Prophets in the Isthmus-Life”). Revised bilingual edition. Al-Anwar al-Bahiyya fi Isra’ waMi’raj Khayr al-Bariyya (“The Prophet’s Night Journey and Ascention”). Revised English edition. Sayyid Yusuf Hashim al-Rifa’i. Nasiha li-Ikhwaninia Ulama’ Najd (“Advice to our Brethren the Scholars of Najd”). Introduction by M.S.R. al-Buti. With Sayyid ‘Alawi Ahmad al-Haddad’s Misbah al-Anam (“The Light of Mankind”). English. Al-Habib ‘Ali al-Jafri. Jesus Christ the Son of Mary and His Most Blessed Mother Afdalu al-Khalqi Sayyiduna Muhammad (On the Prophetic Attribute “Best of Creation”). Bilingual. Al-Arba’un fi Fadli al-Shami wa-Ahlih wal-Hijrati ila Allahi wa-Rasulih (“The Excellence of Syro-Palestine and Its People in Emigrating to Allah and His Prophet: 40 Hadith”) Bilingual. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Saddiq. Bilingual. Qubrus al-Tarab fi Suhbat Rajab (“The Joy of Cyprus in the Association of Rajab ”). Discourses of Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Bilingual. Mawlid: Celebrating the Birth of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) Collective Supplication: Sunna or Bid’a? Bilingual. Ahmad ibn Taymiyya ‘Ayn al-Hayb fi Usul Kashf al-Ghayb (“Proof-Texts of the Prophetic knowledge of the Unseen”). Bilingual. Siyar al-Khulafa’ al-Rashidin (“The Rightly-Guided Caliphs”). Bilingual. Usul al-Bid’at al Hasana fil-Qur'an wal Hadith (“Proof-Texts of the Good Innovation from the Qur’an and Hadith”). Bilingual. Al-Ziyarat al-Iraqiyya ila al-Hadarat al-Barzakhiyya bil-Imdadat al-Haqqaniyya wal-Suhbat al-Jiliyya (“Haqqani Visitation to the Sanctuaries of Iraq with Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jili al-Madani”). Bilingual. Min al-Haramayn al-Sharifayn (“From the Two Holy Sanctuaries: A Hajj Journal”). 2nd edition. Bilingual. Min al-Maghrib al-Mubarak (“From Blessed Morocco”). English and Arabic. Our Mother ‘A’isha al-Siddiqa al-Nabawiyya. Bilingual. The Ash’ari School and the Literalists: Texts and Biographies. The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation. Abd al-Khaliq. Hujjiyat al-Sunna (“The Binding Proof of the Sunna”). Bilingual. Ibn Jahbal al-Kilabi. The Refutation of Him [ibn Taymiyyah] Who Attributes Direction to Allah.