Shaykh Gibril Haddad

Dr Gibril Haddad was born in Beirut in 1380/1960. He embraced Islam while a graduate student in French Literature at Columbia University in New York. He lives in Damascus, Syria. Since 1997 he has translated and published the following texts:

  • Ibn Khafif. Al-'Aqida al-Sahiha ("Correct Islamic Doctrine").
  • Al-Bayhaqi. Al-Asma' wal-Safat ("The Divine Names and Attributes").
  • Excerpts.
  • Ibn 'Abd al-Salam. Ai-Mulha fi I'tiqad Ahl al-Haqq ("Belief of the Poeple 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 (peace be upon him) 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.
  • G.F. Haddad. Afdalu al-Khalqi Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace be upon him) On the Prophetic Attribute "Best of Creation"). Bilingual.
  • Al-Arba'un fi Fadli al-Shami wa-Ahlih wal-Hijrati ila Allahi wa-Rasulih (peace be upon him) ("The Excellence of Syro-Palestine and Its People in Emigrating to Allah and His Prophet (peace be upon him) 40 Hadith") Bilingual. Forewords by Shaykh Abid Kallas, Shaykh Mustafa al-Turkmani, and Shaykh Salah Fakhri.
  • Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Saddiq (may Allah be well pleased with him). Bilingual.
  • Qubrus al-Tarab fi Suhbat Rajab ("The Joy of Cyprus in the Association of Rajab [1422]"). 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.
  • Albani and His Friends: A Concise Guide to the "Salafi" Movement.
  • The Four Imams and Their Schools. Bilingual.
  • Ahmad ibn Taymiyya.