Our Shaykh - Profile Overview

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• Received the Madihur Rasool

Sadaqatullah Appa Award 2012 CE
for outstanding Arabic Scholar, from
the Department of Arabic, Persian &
Urdu, University of Madras, India
(see ceremony below);

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• Received the national award for

‘Outstanding Arabic Scholar’ in 1997
CE conferred by former president of
India: Dr. S. D. Sharma;

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• Deeply learned in the

Glorious Qur’aan and Sunnah;

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• Holds M.Phil. and Ph.D. Degrees

in Arabic Philology from the
University of Al-Azhar (Cairo);

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• Majored in English Language

and Literature, University of
Madras, India;

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• Formerly Professor of Arabic

Language for 30 years at the
renowned Islaamic University
of Madinah;

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• Then formerly the Director of the

‘Institute of Teaching Arabic
as a Foreign Language’, Islaamic
University, Madinah;

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• Served as Professor of Arabic at the

Islaamic University Omdurman
Sudan, the Khartoum University
Sudan; in Germany, in Washington
D.C., in British Guyana; and the
Islaamic University, Madinah.

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• An expert in European languages:

in their etymology, phonetic
changes and semantic development.

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• An expert in the etymology,

phonetic changes and semantic
development of Arabic dialects.

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• Currently the Director of the

Translation Centre at the
‘King Fahd Glorious Qur’aan Printing
Complex’ (Madinah Munawwarah,
Saudi Arabia)

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Our Shaykh Abdur Rahim’s signature:

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