Yusuf al-Qaradawi

يوسف القرضاوي

1926–2022 · Egypt / Qatar · Islamic jurist, scholar and author, preacher, television presenter, chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, president of the European Council for Fatwa and Research

Yusuf al-Qaradawi was born in 1926 in the Nile Delta village of Safṭ Turāb in Egypt. He memorised the Qurʾan as a child and studied at al-Azhar in Cairo, graduating from the College of Uṣūl al-Dīn in 1952 and earning a diploma in Arabic language studies in 1958. Al-Jazeera dates his doctorate to 1973. As a young man he was close to the Muslim Brotherhood and was imprisoned several times in Egypt; he is reported to have declined invitations to lead the movement.

Around 1961 he moved to Qatar, where he taught and later took Qatari citizenship. His book The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam (1960) and many others on jurisprudence, preaching and the Islamic revival made him one of the most widely read Sunni authors of his time. From 1996 he presented the weekly Al Jazeera programme al-Sharīʿa wa-l-Ḥayāt, which ended in 2013. He helped found and led the European Council for Fatwa and Research and was the first chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars. The King Faisal International Prize recognised his service to Islam; the prize’s website gives 1994 as the year.

His views drew both admiration and criticism. He condemned the attacks of 11 September 2001 but defended Palestinian suicide attacks on Israelis during the Second Intifada, a position he later revised, and he supported armed resistance to coalition forces in Iraq. In 2011 he called for the killing of Muammar Gaddafi and backed the uprising against Bashar al-Assad. Several Western countries refused him entry; Egypt sentenced him to death in his absence in 2015, and Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states and Egypt named him on a terrorism list in 2017. Supporters see him as a moderate reformer, and critics as an enabler of extremism. He retired from public life in 2018 and died in Doha on 26 September 2022, aged 96.

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Archived 15 October 2026 · Biography sources: aljazeera.com · euronews.com · kingfaisalprize.org

Works

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Books 156

BOOK 1960 · Arabic

Al-Ḥalāl wa-l-Ḥarām fī l-Islām الحلال والحرام في الإسلام

Classic guide to what is permitted and forbidden in Muslim daily life, from food and dress to work and family.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: al-qaradawi.net

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al-Qaradawi, Yusuf. Al-Ḥalāl wa-l-Ḥarām fī l-Islām. 1960. al-qaradawi.net, https://www.al-qaradawi.net/sites/default/files/pdf/9af5b-elhalalwelhram.pdf. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/yusuf-al-qaradawi/#yusuf-al-qaradawi-al-halal-wa-l-haram-fi-l-islam-ar

Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Works

Books 156

Articles & essays 12