Zaghloul El-Naggar

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Zaghloul Ragheb Mohammed Al Naggar (Template:Langx, (Script error: No such module "IPA".), born 17 November 1933), also known as Zaghloul El-Naggar,[1] is an Egyptian geologist, Muslim scholar, and author. The main theme of El-Naggar's books has been science in Quran; his philosophy of science is blended with religion. He left his academic career to become the Chairman of Committee of Scientific Notions in the Qur'an, Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Cairo, Egypt.

Personal life

El-Naggar received his bachelor's degree from the University of Cairo. He obtained his PhD in geology from the University of Wales in the United Kingdom in 1963 where his thesis title was "Geology and stratigraphic palaeontology of the Esna-Idfu Region, Nile Valley, Egypt, U.A.R.".[2] El-Naggar is an elected Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (1988), the Geological Society of Egypt and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was imprisoned because of his political activism and beliefs during his student life. He was considered a grave threat to secular political establishment of Egypt. He was exiled from Egypt in early 1960s and could return to his country only in 1970.[3]

Works

El-Naggar wrote a book entitled The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Qur'an (2003, Template:ISBN). It was published by New Vision when El-Naggar was the chair of geology at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. This book sold fairly well,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". leading El-Naggar to leave teaching and become the Chairman of Committee of Scientific Notions in the Qur'an.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

El-Naggar published more than 150 scientific studies and articles, none of them peer reviewed, and 45 books in Arabic, English and French. For instance, his book "The issue of Scientific Miracles in the Holy Quran", in Arabic: "قضية الإعجاز العلمي للقرآن و ضوابط التعامل معها ". Many of those publications deal with what are considered to be scientific miracles in Qur'an.[4]

Controversial claims and religion

Naggar said that the power of America would eventually end.[5]

Camel urine was prescribed as a treatment by Zaghloul El-Naggar which has anti cancer properties according to a peer reviewed paper.[6][7]

He engaged in 9/11 denial and spoke twice in the Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque in Qatar.[8]

Splitting of the Moon

Naggar claimed in 2004 that NASA had in 1978 confirmed in a television program the splitting of the Moon.[9]

See also

References

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  3. ↑ The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Qur'an In NEWVISION Website
  4. ↑ Ahmad Dallal, Science and the Qur'an, Encyclopedia of the Qur'an
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  9. ↑ Book: Treasures in the Sunnah - A Scientific Approach, Zaghloul El Naggar, pub. Al-Falah Foundation for Translation, Publication, and Distribution, 2004, Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link, p41-43, on Google books and cited on the author's Web siteTemplate:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

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