Scientific Committee
Prof. Yomna Tareef Al-Kholy is the Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. She won many national encouragement and merit awards, not to mention many awards from Cairo University in humanities and international publishing.
She participated in several international conferences held inside and outside Egypt. She further participated in the foundation of the philosophy department at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, where she taught from 2013 until 2015.
She authored many books in History, Philosophy and Research Methodologies such as, “Settlement of Scientific Methodology: Future and Historical Philosophical Approaches”, “Towards an Islamic Scientific Methodology: The Settlement of Science in Our Culture”, issued by the Arab Foundation of Thought and Creativity, and “The Issue of Humanities: Its Legalization and the Possibility of Solving it”. She further has several translations, such as “The Mechanical Mind: A Philosophical Introduction to Minds, Machines and Intellectual Representation”; “Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Feminist, Multicultural Postcolonial World”. Besides, she authored a number of studies published in journals and took part in international conferences on the same fields.
He is a professor of Islamic Political Theory at Helwan University. He is a former lecturer at the International Institute of Islamic Banking and Economics, and teaches in several faculties at Helwan, Ain Shams, and October 6 universities, and the Higher Institute of Technology in various subjects. In addition, he held the position of Professor and former Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Applied Sciences.
He participated in the scientific arbitration of research in several scientific journals in Egypt, Kuwait and Sudan, in addition to supervising and discussing master’s and doctoral theses as well as his role in the Standing Committee for Promotions of the degrees of assistant professor and professor of political science in the Arab Republic of Egypt, Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates.
He has actively contributed to many projects, such as building political concepts, rooting the Islamism of knowledge’s approach, and political upbringing and education according to the Islamic perspective.
He has published tens of books and studies, including: “The Political Role of the Elite in the Early Era of Islam”, “Eastern and Western Political Thinking”, “Combining Sciences: Prerequisites and Conditions according to the Qur’anic Perspective”, and “The Political Institution in the Qur’anic Perspective”.
He is an Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, Turkey, a teacher of Islamic history at Cairo University, a researcher at the Texts Verification Center at Al-Azhar University previously, an active member of the Egyptian Society for Historical Studies, and a member of the advisory board of the Iraqi al-Mawred magazine. He won Sheikh Zayed’s Book Award 2022 (Translation Category) for translating “The Rise of Humanism in Classical Islam and the Christian West” by George Makdisi.
He has several published books, such as “The Sabians since the Advent of Islam until the Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate” and “The Plague in the Umayyad Era: Unknown Pages from the History of the Umayyad Caliphate”. In addition to translating some books into Arabic, such as: “Classical Literature” by William Allan, “Islamic Economics A Short History” by Ahmed Al-Ashqar and Rodney Wilson, the introduction to the Muqaddimah of of Ibn Khaldun’s biography and an introduction to his Muqaddimah by Franz Rosenthal, and “The Silk Roads: A New History of the World” by Peter Frankopan, among others.
In addition to dozens of studies, scientific papers, and articles published in peer-reviewed journals and on the Internet.
Prof. Badr Eddin Mustafa Ahmed is the Professor of Aesthetics and Contemporary Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Cairo University. He is a member of the Committee of Philosophy at the Supreme Council of Culture and the Editor-in-Chief of the Philosophy Series issued by the General Organization of Culture Palaces of Egypt. A number of his compilations were published, such as “Metaphysics”, “The Philosophy of Post- Modernism”, “The Philosophy of Beauty”, “Philosophical Conundrums”, and “The Paths of Postmodernism”. He made many translations for publication, such as “What is Power?” by Arkan for Studies, Research, and Publishing, “The Phenomenological Mind”, “What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic”, and “Political Thinkers from Socrates to the Present”.
He was chosen as a member of a team preparing the Encyclopedia of Occidentalism, which is issued under the supervision of the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Qatar University. He has published many studies published in journals and platforms linking cinema and philosophy, identity and resistance, and philosophical dimensions of media.
Prof. Ahmad Abdullah Najm is the Professor of History and Ottoman Civilization at the Department of Eastern Languages at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University. He is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Social Sciences and Education, which is published in Turkey.
He authored and translated several books such as, “Education in the Ottoman State: A Study of Madrasas’ Role since the Rise of the State until the Death of Sultan Suleiman Al-Qanooni” (2019) by Arkan for Studies, Research, and Publishing, and “A Commentary on the Islamic Caliphate and the Virtues of the Ottoman Caliphate by the former Sheikh of Al-Azhar Hassan Al-Attar”. He translated that book into Turkish. He also translated “Jews in the Ottoman State until the End of the Nineteenth Century” (2019) by Arkan for Studies, Research, and Publishing. He translated “The Democratic Transformation in Turkey”, “The Crimean Authors at the Time of Ottoman Rule”, “A Voyage on the Nile”, and “The Encyclopedia of History and Politics”.
Prof. Mohamed Sofar is the Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences at Cairo University. He has a Ph.D. in Politics from the Freie Universität Berlin. He majored in Political Philosophy and Islamic Political Thought. Some of his published books include “Authenticity”, “The Deconstruction of Power Concept according to Michel Foucault: The Reopening of the Iranian File”, and “Studies in Egyptian Political Thinking”.
He translated “Political Ideologies: An Introduction” by Andrew Heywood, “Theories of International Relations”, “Al-Azhar and Shari’a”, and “Remembering World War I”.
A former judge in Egyptian courts from 2002 to 2014, and a lecturer at the International Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences in Kuwait. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1999 and received his PhD in the Philosophy of Criminal Law in 2018. He also holds two master’s degrees: one in Islamic Economics from the Higher Institute for Islamic Studies in Cairo in 2016, and another in Private Law from the Faculty of Law at Mansoura University in 2007. He earned diplomas in Islamic and Western Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University in 2017 and in Anthropology from the Faculty of African Research and Studies at the same university in 2016. Additionally, he received a diploma in Islamic Studies from the Higher Institute for Islamic Studies in Cairo in 2012.
He has published several works on the history and philosophy of law and Islamic jurisprudence, including: The Miraculous Sharia, Sharia and Modernization, Science and Islamization, Reforming Wealth: Islamic Rationalism and the Crisis-Ridden Economy, and Hadith Science: History, Philosophy, and Methodological Establishment. He received the Islamic Research Academy Award in 2013 for his work on “Legislative Inimitability.” He has participated in numerous international conferences and published research in several academic journals in these fields.
A former member of the Scientific Committee until he died in 2025.
He worked as a professor of Islamic economics at Al-Azhar University and the Higher Institute for Islamic Studies in Cairo, and as head of the Economics Department at the International University of South America. He was also a former professor of Islamic economics at Qatar University, Umm Al-Qura University, Yarmouk University, and the International Islamic University in Islamabad.
He made numerous contributions to the field of scientific miracles in the Holy Quran, including the book “Foundations for Establishing Scientific Miracles in the Holy Quran and the Prophetic Sunnah in the Social Sciences,” in addition to several published books on Islamic and conventional economics, such as: “Basic Introductions to Islamic Economics,” “Encyclopedia of Islamic Economics in Banking, Money, and Financial Markets,” “Economic Moderation in Islam,” “Zakat and the Accommodation of Development,” “The Scientific Heritage of Muslims in Economics: The Rational Arab Contribution,” and “The Miraculous Nature of the Holy Quran in Prohibiting Usury and its Application in the Humanities and Social Sciences,” among others.
He also served as a Sharia supervisor for several companies, an academic advisor to the International Institute of Islamic Thought in Cairo, and the director of the Cairo office of the World Association for Scientific Miracles in the Quran and Sunnah.
