A late Syrian cleric and jurist. He rose through the ranks at the Faculty of Sharia at the University of Damascus , where he was a teacher, then dean in 1975, dean in 1977, and finally head of the Department of Beliefs and Religions. He assumed the Imamate of the Umayyad Mosque and the presidency of the Union of Levant Scholars, and served as a member of: “The Royal Aal al-Bayt Foundation for Islamic Thought” in Jordan, the “Supreme Council of the Oxford Academy,” the “Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions,” the “Noor al-Islam Society in the West” in France, and the “Taba Foundation” in the Emirates, And the Royal Academy for Islamic Civilization Research in Amman. He participated in many Arab and international conferences and seminars, such as the “Islamic Intellectual Forum” in Algeria for several years. He also lectured in most Arab and Western countries, and presented many television programs. He has many books, the number of which exceeded 60, including: “The Jurisprudence of the Prophet’s Biography,” “Islam and the Age,” “The Approach to Human Civilization in the Qur’an,” “These are Our Problems,” “Man Is a Path or a Choice,” and “Man Has a Path or a Choice.” Islam is a refuge for all human societies,” “Love in the Qur’an and the Role of Love in Human Life,” “From the Thought and the Heart,” “They Are Mistaking You When They Say,” “Aisha, the Mother of the Believers, may God be pleased with her,” and “The Approach to Human Civilization in Islam.” “Refuting the illusions of dialectical materialism,” “The experience of Islamic education in the balance of research,” “The jurisprudence of the Prophet’s biography,” “The greatest universal certainties,” “Falsehood does not come to him,” and “Personals who stopped me.” He was awarded the “Islamic World Personality Title” in the 18th session of the “Dubai International Holy Quran Award” in 2004. He holds a doctorate in the foundations of Islamic law in 1963 from Al-Azhar University in Egypt, a bachelor’s degree in law in 1955, and a diploma in education in 1956 from The university itself. He died on March 21, 2013 in Damascus.