1931 — 2011

Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Hawarey

Scholar, Author, and Educator. Expert in Comparative Religion, Islamic Studies, and Tafseer. Author of numerous books and over 120 research publications.

Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Hawarey

English Resume

A group of individuals of the family of (Hawarey) had left Hijaz (i.e. Western Arabian Peninsula) to reside in various parts of Sham Lands (i.e. Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine; The Levant).

It is a branch of the greater family of Prophet Mohammad SAW, as it is descendent of his cousin (the son of his aunt) Safiyyah the daughter of Abd Al-Mottaleb: Al-Zubeir the son of Al-Awwam, who had taken the title of (Hawarey of the Prophet: His Disciple) during the Battle of Trench.

The Sheikh was born in 1931, descending from the Disciple of the Prophet SAW: Al-Zubeir the son of Al-Awwam, the ancestry of whom meets that of the Prophet SAW at Qusay the son of Kelab: the Master of Quraysh. The aunt of Al-Zubeir was Khadeejah the daughter of Khowayled, his two uncles were Hamza and Al-Abbas, his cousins were Ali (the Caliph) and Jaafer, his father-in-law was Abu Baker (the Caliph), and his son was Abdullah (the Caliph), may Allah SWT be pleased with them all.

While both parents of the Sheikh were Hawarey's, his father Hamed and his only uncle Fares were both martyred during the struggle against colonialism in Sham Lands in 1930's.

The Sheikh joined the Syrian University in Damascus (had been renamed later on to become Damascus University) to graduate with BA in Literature and BA in Education. Later on, he acquired MA and PhD in Comparative Religion and PhD in Tafseer (the unique study of the Holy Quran and its interpretation). While he had published his researches in the field of Comparative Religion as part of his book "Whoever Has a Mind... Must Reflect on these Islamic Researches", in Arabic, his Tafseer research had been published in his book "Call from the Compilation of Rulings", in 2 volumes of 4 parts, in Arabic.

After his graduation from the Syrian University, he spent 30 years in Kuwait, until 1990, working in various fields of professorship, technical and administrative supervision, studies and researches, translation and other intellectual and political activities. During this period, he finished the curriculum of High Diploma in Higher Islamic Studies in Cairo, Egypt. He also authored more than 120 researches in various fields of education, culture, science and communication, in addition to more than one series that were published in Kuwaiti daily and weekly periodicals. Since 1990, he lived in Sham Lands and authored multiple books that are advertised on this website all along with the publishers, in Arabic.