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Islamic book, Al-Qaradawi was born in Egypt. Following his father's
death, the two year old Qaradawi was raised by his uncle. His family
urged him to either run a grocery store or to become a carpenter.
Instead, he read and memorized the entire Qur'an by the time he was
nine years old. Qaradawi was a follower of Hasan al-Banna during his
youth and was imprisoned first under the monarchy in 1949, then
three times after the publication of Tyrant and the Scholar. He
attended the Al-Azhar Theological Seminary before moving to Qatar.
During his time at al-Azhar, al-Qaradawi oversaw the Muslim
Brotherhood's (Wafd-government-approved) paramilitary training camp
there, alongside fellow Muslim Brothers Ahmed al-'Asal and Abdallah
al-'Aqil. The camp, along with others like it at other Egyptian
universities, taught university students how to use weapons and
explosives, and drilled them in a doctrine of religious war against
the occupying British and Israelis. He worked in the Egyptian
Ministry of Religious Endowments, was the Dean of the Islamic
Department at the Faculties of Shariah and Education in Qatar, and
served as chairman of the Islamic Scientific Councils of Algerian
Universities and Institutions. He was a longtime member of the
Muslim Brotherhood, and has turned down offers to be the
Brotherhood's leader various times. Qaradawi is the head of the
European Council for Fatwa and Research. |
