Jamal Badawi

Canada · Professor of management, volunteer imam, author and broadcaster on Islam

Jamal Badawi is an Egyptian-born Canadian writer and speaker on Islam. He studied at Ain Shams University in Cairo, moved to the United States in the 1960s, and took a master’s degree and doctorate in business administration at Indiana University Bloomington. He later taught management at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has served as a volunteer imam of the Halifax Muslim community since 1970.

He founded and chairs the Islamic Information Foundation, which produces introductory material on Islam for non-Muslims, and he designed and presented a television series of several hundred half-hour episodes that was broadcast in Canada, the United States and elsewhere. He has been active in the Fiqh Council of North America, the European Council for Fatwa and Research and other bodies, and in 1997 he debated the Christian philosopher William Lane Craig on the concept of God.

His publications are mostly short books and pamphlets for general readers: on the status of women, gender equity, women’s dress, polygamy, the prophethood of Muhammad and Islamic leadership. They present a modern, scripture-based defence of Islamic teaching and have been reproduced by Islamic organisations and websites.

Archived 19 October 2026 · Biography sources: en.wikipedia.org · soundvision.com

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Works

Books 6

PAMPHLET 1982 · English

Muhammad in the Bible

A short argument that the Bible foretells the coming of Muhammad.

Archived 19 October 2026 · Source: openlibrary.org

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Badawi, Jamal. Muhammad in the Bible. 1982. Archived 19 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/jamal-badawi/#jamal-badawi-muhammad-in-the-bible

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BOOK 1995 · English

Gender Equity in Islam: Basic Principles

An outline of Islamic teaching on the equity of men and women in religion, family and society.

Archived 19 October 2026 · Source: Sound Vision (reproduced with the author's permission)

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Badawi, Jamal. Gender Equity in Islam: Basic Principles. 1995. Sound Vision (reproduced with the author's permission), https://www.soundvision.com/book/export/html/2691. Archived 19 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/jamal-badawi/#jamal-badawi-gender-equity-in-islam-basic-principles

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BOOK 1999 · English

Leadership: An Islamic Perspective with Rafik Issa Beekun

A study of leadership and management drawing on Islamic sources, written with Rafik Issa Beekun.

Archived 19 October 2026 · Source: Internet Archive (borrowable)

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Badawi, Jamal. Leadership: An Islamic Perspective. 1999. Internet Archive (borrowable), https://archive.org/details/leadershipislami0000beek. Archived 19 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/jamal-badawi/#jamal-badawi-leadership-an-islamic-perspective

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PAMPHLET English

Polygamy in Islamic Law

A short account of the Islamic legal rules on plural marriage.

Archived 19 October 2026 · Source: openlibrary.org

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Badawi, Jamal. Polygamy in Islamic Law. Archived 19 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/jamal-badawi/#jamal-badawi-polygamy-in-islamic-law

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PAMPHLET English

The Muslim Woman's Dress According to the Qur'an and the Sunnah

A short study of the Qur'anic and hadith guidance on Muslim women's dress.

Archived 19 October 2026 · Source: openlibrary.org

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Badawi, Jamal. The Muslim Woman's Dress According to the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Archived 19 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/jamal-badawi/#jamal-badawi-the-muslim-womans-dress-according-to-the-quran-and-the

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PAMPHLET English

The Status of Woman in Islam

A short introduction to the position of women in Islamic teaching.

Archived 19 October 2026 · Source: openlibrary.org

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Badawi, Jamal. The Status of Woman in Islam. Archived 19 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/jamal-badawi/#jamal-badawi-the-status-of-woman-in-islam

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