Global Mufti: The Phenomenon of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

by Bettina Graf

An outstanding legal scholar, an Islamist activist and a renowned host of al-Jazeera's most popular religious programme, 'Sharia and Life, Yusuf al-Qaradawi is one of the best-known and most controversial figures of contemporary Islamism. Indeed, it is difficult to think of another Muslim scholar-activist whose global influence matches, let alone exceeds, that of Qaradawi. Born in 1926 in a poor village in the Egyptian Delta, as a young man he attended...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850659303
• ISBN13: 9781850659303
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"